The Supreme Court ordered the government not to give amnesty of UCPN-Maoist leader Balkrishna Dhungel convicted in the murder of Ujjain Shrestha of Okhaldhunga. A constitutional bench of the apex court ruled that balkrishna dhungel, sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1998 murder by the Okhaldhunga District Court, could not be pardoned for the crime. It is noted that local people’s attempts to bring the forest fire under control have become a failure.