The Seven Party Alliance (SPA) government on Friday has taken into custody former Home Minister Kamal Thapa.
Official sources said Thapa is being kept at the Police Training Academy at Maharajgunj in the capital.
There has been no official word regarding Thapa’s arrest. But reports said Thapa has been given 90 day detention order.
The SPA was under tremendous pressure from the members of parliament and pro-democracy activists to take strong action against people said to be responsible for suppressing people’s movement 2006.
Nearly two dozen people were killed and thousands of others were injured when security personnel resorted to lathi charge and fired tear gas shells and bullets to suppress the pro-democracy demonstrations.
The government has already formed a high-level judicial commission led by former Justice at the Supreme Court, Krishna Jung Rayamajhi, to probe into atrocities committed to suppress the ‘jana andolan.’
After the meeting of breakaway faction of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, former Home Minister Kamal Thapa had said if summoned, he was ready to record his statement before the commission.
Reports say an emergency meeting of the council of ministers on Friday decided to arrest former Home Minister Thapa as per the Commission’s recommendation to take action against chiefs of security agencies and interior ministry on the basis of prima facie evidence.