Kathmandu, Apr. 20: The CPN-UML has alleged the chief of the Department of Transport Management, Gaushala office here of misbehaviour and ill treatment of the CPN-UML  party workers who had gathered there to organise a sit-in in protest against the alleged administrative delays, corruption and nepotism at the office recently.

The party also condemned the arrest of a dozen of its party workers including leaders on the occasion.

A press communiqué signed by party’s secretary Bishnu Poudel denounced the misbehaviour and ill-treatment meted out to political party workers who were exercising their constitutional rights and demanded the immediate release of all those detained in that connection.