Nepal's late Crown Prince and later King, Dipendra, accused of committing the June one palace massacre, had over the years become addicted to drugs, which were provided to him by someone within the family circle itself, according to the submissions made by his close aide to the high-level official panel which inquired into the incident.
"His late Majesty's habit of smoking a special kind of cigarette, prepared with 'Ganja' and another black substance had worsened since the last one and a half years. He had become so addicted to it that he used to smoke it in front of every one including at social gatherings," Dipendra's ADC (Aide DF Camp) Raju Kumar Karki is quoted as saying in the excerpts of the probe report. Recalling an incident at the Army Club, Karki claims that he requested Dipendra not to use the cigarette and the latter got angry and asked him, "what do you think (you are)?"
Asked by the two-member inquiry committee about the source of his supply, Karki said, "I do not want to blame anyone for it, but I believe that he used to get it from within the family circle."
The two-member panel, headed by Chief Justice Keshab Prasad Upadhyaya, whose report was made public on Thursday, had alleged that Dipendra shot and killed his father King Birendra, mother Queen Aishwarya and seven other royals with automatic weapons at the Narayanhity palace, after a heavy intake of liquor and drugs. Bureau Report