The District Police arrested three ‘district leaders’ of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist-Netra (CPN-Moist-Netra) from Tulsipur in Dang District on March 5, reports The Himalayan Times. The leaders’ arrest comes at a time when the government has launched a crackdown on Chand-led party leaders following the detonation of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near the gate of Ncell head office in Nakkhu, Lalitpur, in which one person was killed and two others sustained injuries on February 22. According to the District Police Office, Dang, Chand-led party’s district party office member Pradip Oli, district secretariat member Ishwari Pandey and district party member Rudra Oli have been arrested as part of the investigation following the spike in incidents of forceful donations and violence in the district. The trio were arrested as they were attending a programme organised by the party in Tulsipur to felicitate the family members of martyrs and disappeared in the conflict.
Earlier, South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) had reported that one person among the three people who were critically injured when an unidentified group detonated a bomb with the intention of blowing off the Ncell mobile tower at Nakkhu, Lalitpur on February 22 night, succumbed to his injuries.