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  Location within Kathmandu  Location within Bagmati Province  Location within Nepal | |
| Location |
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|---|---|
| Capacity | 500 |
| Opened | 1950 (2007 BS) |
Nakhu Jail (Nepali:नख्खु कारागार, Nakhu Karagar) is a jail in Nepal that was established in 1950 (2007 BS) in the existing, money printing area (Taksar department) in Lalitpur District. The facility has an area of 35 ropanies and 12 ana (about 1.8 hectares). There is a road in the eastern part of the jail, a school in the west, residential area in the north and Nakhu river in the south.[1]
There are two separate blocks for males and females in the Jail. Each block has a capacity to accommodate 250 inmates. There were plans to upgrade it with a capacity to accommodate 1,000 inmates in 2020 (2077 BS) but this was postponed. There is also a Community Rehabilitation Center and a Drug Rehabilitation Center inside the jail.[2] A psychiatric hospital was announced in 2017, to be completed by 2018.[3]
Notable inmates
[edit]- Mohammad Aftab Alam - suspended member of the House of Representatives for charge against the crime of production of explosives and murder.[4]
- Rabi Lamichhane - co-operative scam case convict.[5]
- KP Sharma Oli - political prisoner.[6]
- Padma Ratna Tuladhar - political prisoner.[7]
Jailbreaks
[edit]- C. P. Mainali escaped the jail when he was taken as political prisoner [6]
- A British inmate escaped the jail in October 2018. He was arrested the next day.[8]
- During the 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests, the prison was attacked and set on fire by protesters on 9 September, triggering a jailbreak that led to the escape of all inmates.[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Anashrit Armed Police". Archived from the original on 2020-08-17. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ↑ Setopati, Setopati. "Nakkhu jail to be upgraded". Setopati. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ↑ "Psychiatric hospital to be built in Nakhu Jail". My Republica. Nepal Republic Media Pvt. ltd. 6 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020.
- ↑ "Morning Starter: Sunday, November 17, 2019". OnlineKhabar. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ↑ "रवि लामिछानेलाई नक्खु कारागार सारिनुमा रास्वपाले देखेका दुई कारण" [Two reasons the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh saw for transferring Rabi Lamichhane to Nakkhu Prison]. BBC (in Nepali).
- 1 2 Gellner, David N; Karki, Mrigendra Bahadur (2018). "KP Oli's Early Life and Influences".
- ↑ Gellner, David N; Sharkey, Gregory (1996). "An Interview with Padma Ratna Tuladhar". HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. 16 (1): 9. ISSN 2471-3716.
- ↑ "British inmate arrested after jailbreak from Nakhu prison". Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ↑ "नख्खु जेलमा आगलागी, भागे कैदी". Setopati. Retrieved 2025-09-09.