In a bid to quell the activities of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN), police have arrested a total of 185 of its cadres, including district-level leaders, in the last one fortnight.
After the government announced restriction on the party on March 12, security forces, in recent times, have intensified search and arrest operations against the leaders and cadres of the ‘Bilpav’-led outfit.
Police on Thursday arrested Dip Kumar Gharti alias Samrat, deputy chief of the people’s council, Nawalpur, two days after they arrested Ramji Acharya, Chairman of All Nepal Teacher’s Organization of Rupandehi from his house at Rudrapur on Tuesday through their intelligence-based approach.
On the same day, several leaders and cadres, including Bheri Bureau Chief Dan Bahadur Fadera and former people’s government chief Santosh Basnet from Banke, landed in police net in separate operations.
Chief of the District Police Office, Banke, Superintendent of Police, Arun Poudel informed that six leaders of the Biplav outfit were arrested from different places of the district. These are a few representative incidences.
According to Spokesperson of the Nepal Police, Uttam Raj Subedi, police have so far arrested one hundred 85 cadres of the Biplav-led outfit, including Hemant Prakash Oli alias Sudarshan, mid-central command in-charge. He holds the highest rank among those arrested and is the third leader in hierarchy after Biplav and Prakanda – both of whom are underground.
Among others, police have arrested Krishna Kumar Shrestha alias Prajwal, Morang district in-charge.
Police arrested 22 Biplav-led party cadres from Kathmandu, 17 from Sindhupalchowk, 12 from Tanahun, 10 from Lalitpur, 9 from Kaski, 8 from Ilam, 7 from Chitwan, 6 each from Myagdi and Banke, 5 from Achham, 4 each from Saptari, Salyan, Sunsari, Solukhumbu, Bara, Rupandehi and Parsa, 3 each from Sarlahi, Kapilvastu, Kalikot, Dang, Nawalparasi East, Dhankuta, Pyuthan, Sankhuwasabha and Rolpa districts.
Likewise, police have arrested one each from Udayapur, Dolpa, Bhojpur, Ramechhap, Rukum West, Nawalparasi West, Rautahat, Lamjung, Panchthar, Makawanpur, Gorkha, Jhapa, Gulmi, Kailali, Dhading, Terhathum, Morang and Nuwakot districts.
The government has alleged the Biplap-led faction of creating terror in different parts of the country.
GAIGHAT: Udayapur District Court has convicted two teenage boys of rape and murder of a minor girl, slapping life imprisonment on them.
A single bench of Judge Tejendra Prasad Sharma handed down the verdict against 16-year-old and 17-year-old boy on the charge of raping and murdering Aljina Khadka, 13, of Lafagaun in Rautamai Rural Municipality-3 in Udayapur on October 23.
According to the Registrar at the District Court Udayapur, Raj Kumar Acharya, the 16-year-old convict was sentenced to 12 years in jail along with a fine of Rs 100,000 while 16 years of life sentence and Rs 30,000 in fine was slapped on another 17-year-old convict.
Since both the convicts were juvenile, they will not have to serve life sentence as in the case of an adult. Therefore, they will serve half of the life sentence, shared Registrar Acharya.
The body of the minor was found buried in a jungle in Kharibari in Udayapur. Police had arrested the alleged rapist and murders with the support of trained sniffer dogs. After a thorough investigation, they were found guilty of raping and murdering the minor.
KATHMANDU: Unidentified hackers have made attempts to hack the official website of Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). The hacker has said that the website “may be hacked”. The site, however, can be opened.
“We are not aware of this,” Suresh Sah, IT expert at TIA told Khabarhub.
GORKHA: Three cadres of the Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’-led group have abandoned the faction citing dissatisfaction over the party’s recent activities.
The group’s district member Anil Kumal, youth member Gokul Kumal, and area committee member Meghraj Kumal abandoned the party by issuing a statement.
They said they decided to leave the group owing to the party’s activities saying they now would live as independent citizens.
KATHMANDU: President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Wednesday certified three bills endorsed by both Houses of the Federal Parliament.
The bills, Public-Private Partnership and Investment Bill-2075, Bill designed to amend Special Economic Zone Act-2073 and Bill designed to amend and integrate laws related to Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer-2075 have been certified, according to the Office of the President.
The President certified the bills in accordance with Article 113 (2) of the Constitution.
BIRATNAGAR: Police arrested Krishna Kumar Shrestha, the Morang in-charge of the Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’-led Nepal Communist Party, today.
Shrestha was arrested from Morang. He is under custody at the Area Police Office, Dharan, police said.
BUTWAL: An unidentified group shot dead an Indian national in Butwal on Wednesday evening.
The victim, Feroz Khan, 45, was an employee at the Auto Village at Mainanagar, Butwal, police said.
He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the Lumbini Provincial Hospital.
The reason behind the attack is not clear. Police have initiated investigation.
PARSA: Hundreds reached Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve on Wednesday morning to capture land after rumors circulated that the government is distributing the ‘unused’ land to landless squatters.
Police used force after the group started building houses at Kanchanpur-1, Bairewa. A clash was ensued following intervention by the law enforcement agency. Police fired 19 teargas canisters to contain the situation. Over a dozen people were arrested by police while three cops sustained injuries.
Security personnel were fanned out after Reserve’s Administration informed police that large numbers of people are trying to build houses illegally.
KATHMANDU: A total of 81,077 applicants have so far applied for the Korean Langue Test (KLT) under the Employment Permit System. Out of the total number, 55,997 have applied in productive sector while 25,080 applied for the agriculture and livestock sectors.
According to the Department of Foreign Employment, EPS section, the candidates will have to fill out forms online from March 22 to 31.
Human Resource Department under the Korean government has announced vacancies for 10,050 Nepali workers – 7,050 for productive sector while over 3,000 for agriculture and livestock sectors – at the request of the department for the year 2019. KLT will be held on June 8-9.
KANCHANPUR: Police on Wednesday arrested five people for vandalizing the temporary police post at Bedkot Municipality – Chamfapur.
The arrested are Bikash Bista, Dhirendra Chand, Ishwor Chatauht, Direndra Rawal and Hari Bohara. They were arrested for vandalism at the police post after the law enforcement agency tried to send them home following a hooliganism.
All the arrested have been sent to police custody at District Police Office.