Kathmandu, March 27 -- Special Court former chair Gauri Bahadur Karki-led judicial probe commission set up to investigate the September Gen Z protest, whose report was leaked to the media on Wednesday, appears biased and confused.

Formed on September 21, the commission had the terms of reference (ToR) to investigate both days of the protest-state atrocities on September 8 and arson and vandalism on the following day. The commission has recommended criminal investigation against then-prime minister and the CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli, then home minister Ramesh Lekhak, and Chandra Kuber Khapung, the former chief of Nepal Police, for their negligence that led to the deaths of dozens. But it seems to have put little effort into probing those...