Police on June 8 arrested 18 leaders and cadres of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist-Chand) from Annapurna rural municipality of Kaski District in Province No. 4 when they were holding a meeting in a building used by the local Mothers Group, reports Republica. The arrested include Bibek Bhandari alias Aakrosh, the group's Kaski District Secretary; Kaji Gurung, the District President of the Group's student organization; and Central Member Milan Rai.