A new attempt to arrest Ram Bomjon, the ‘Buddha Boy’ of Nepal

Around 150 security personnel sealed off the ashram spread over 42 bighas of land and combed the area, but they could not find Bomjan anywhere. “We have sealed the ashram area and searched for him in all possible places, but could not find him,” said a police officer involved in the operation. According to him,...

How Nepal’s forensics infrastructure lets perpetrators get away with crimes

"Many doctors have never witnessed even a single case before they start performing autopsies,” said Wasti. This has huge implications for criminal investigations— doctors are often unable to provide information that would aid police in their investigations. In reality, police rarely contact relevant medical experts. Instead, doctors in government hospitals, who have little or no...

Police chiefs who cooperated with Bomjon against his victims in 2012

Bara District Police chief SP Dan Singh Bohara and Inspector at the Area Police Office, Simara KP Sharma are the two policemen who had "investigated" my case after Ram Bomjon had held me on chains in his jungle 3 months, in torture and sexual abuse. Videos made by journalists who actually did search for me,...

Victims of Ram Bomjon get re-victimized by Nepal’s authorities

Ganga Maya Moktan, Bomjon's rape victim, had been effectively silenced. The families of disappeared personal servant nuns and monks of Bomjon had been threatened and intimidated to take back their police reports. Victims and witnesses of Bomjon's crimes get bullied, cursed and must fear for their lives. Even if they survived the Hell that Bomjon...

Paedophiles in Nepal and the double-standard of police in dealing with them

What does Peter Dalglish, Ram Bahadur Bomjon and Nirmala Panta's case have in common? They are all connected to accusations of pedophilia, sexual abuse of minors. But while the Canadian had been swiftly arrested and sentenced, Bomjon's rape victim Ganga Maya's police report had been rejected, and Nirmala Panta's rapists-murderers walk free even after nearly...

Bomjan thrashing nine shepherds continuously for twenty hours in 2010

As Bomjon's attack on the 17 Madeshi men of Manarhawa happened just two months before this case in 2010, the story of the 9 shepherds continuously beaten for 20 hours to blood by him and his brutal monks, had not even been published in English. Yet, why should we consider the fate of illiterate and...

Rita Bot – Bomjon’s first wife have disappeared already 9 years ago

"Bomjon told us that from now on he and Rita are a couple, that he had married her" remembered Rita's relatives."Is it normal that a celibate Ascetic, a Buddha has a wife?" they asked him. Bomjon told them yes, it is entirely normal, there is nothing wrong in it. That time everyone in the village...

The unbearable burden of knowing the full truth

After Bomjon harmed me so much and so long in 2012, I also wanted just to be alone and get answer why did this happen to me, only from the Highest God. People, they had betrayed me. Those who were my long-time friends in GG, even (or most!)  Andrea Good, joined Bomjon in calling me...