Policemen Plight

Nepal: Some policemen were using their station in the outskirts of capital Kathmandu are accused of taking goats from the local people and slaughtering for them, when they should have been performing the duty to stop crime scenes.Junior police officers in Kathmandu earn just 9,000 rupees (£72) a month and often top up their salaries with second jobs. But the 10 officers under investigation have claimed that they did not charge anything.

In 2009, Kathmandu ran out of goats to sacrifice just days before the country's biggest religious festival, the Hindu festival of Dashain to appease the goddess of power, Durga.

The government was forced to send officials into the countryside to look for animals to help ease the shortage in Kathmandu.