As agreed earlier, the government  has released two leaders of the Maoist-aligned All Nepal National Independent Students Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R)- Harisharan Acharya and Durga BK on Friday morning.

They were released and handed over to human rights activist Sudeep Pathak and PABSON’s Kaski unit president Umesh Shrestha at 9:40 a.m. Friday, reports said.

On September 10, the government had agreed to release them within 20 days.

The student wing of the underground CPN (Maoist), had asked all the schools in the region to close down for weeks in September demanding that the local administration free two of its members taken into custody in Kaski.

Harisharan Acharya is ANNISU-R central committee member while Durga BK is Kaski district secretary.

The pro-Maoist student union had decided to withdraw its call for indefinite closure of educational strike in the Gandak region after the government agreed to make public its two members.