Exact Moment Nepal Ex-PM KP Sharma Oli Was Arrested by Police in Gundu
Former Prime Minister of Nepal KP Sharma Oli and former Nepal Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak arrested over violence Gen Z protest crackdown within 24 hours of former rapper Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, swearing in as the country’s 40th Prime Minister. The three-year-old party led by rapper-turned-politician Balen Shah secured a landslide victory in the general elections.
The massive youth-led protests toppled the previous KP Oli-led government in September 2025. Later, in September, Nepal’s first female prime minister Sushila Karki, a retired Supreme Court judge, was appointed to help during the transition leading up to the election.
The dramatic events unfolded early this morning in connection with a culpable homicide case linked to the violent clashes during the September 2025 Gen Z protests.
Both KP Sharma Oli and his then Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak have been accused of doing nothing to prevent killings of young protesters during the massive youth-led uprising on September 8 last year. An official probe into the killings had recommended criminal prosecution against the two plus the then chief of Nepal Police Chandra Kuber Khapung. After several youth was killed during the protests in 2025, then Kathmandu Mayor Balen Shah, who is now the new Nepal PM, had written on Facebook – ‘KP Oli is a terrorists. Arrest him.’
The action against the former prime minister and his home minister comes directly after a key decision was taken in the first Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Balen Shah on Friday. The newly formed Nepal leadership resolved to implement the findings of a high-level inquiry commission that investigated the Gen Z protest crackdown.
As per The Kathmandu Post, police officials said that both KP Sharma Oli and Ramesh Lekhak were arrested to enforce the recommendations of the commission led by former Special Court judge Gauri Bahadur Karki. The local news further stated that the commission has recommended that Oli, Lekhak, and then Inspector General of Police Chandra Kuber Khapung be charged under Sections 181 and 182 of the National Penal Code for criminal negligence. The charges could carry a prison term of up to 10 years.
The report attributes the deadly crackdown to ‘criminal negligence and recklessness’, citing failure to act on prior intelligence warning of escalation. During the youth-led protests on September 8 and 9, 2025, a total of 77 people were killed, while government and private property worth billions was destroyed.
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