A joint team of Nepal Police and Armed Police Force arrested three cadres of Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist-Chand) at Mai Municipality in Ilam District of Province 1 on May 4, reports The Himalayan Times. The arrestees are Ilam District In-Charge Pushpa Koirala and cadres Pasang Sherpa and Pasang Tamang. 19 pieces of detonator, a pressure cooker bomb, pipe filled with explosives, one grenade, meter used in bomb explosion, different improvised explosive device (IED), four remote knife and documents were recovered from them.
Meanwhile, Police on May 5 arrested Anil Sharma aka Birahi, a Politburo member of CPN-Maoist-Chand while undergoing treatment at the College of Medical Sciences in Chitwan District of Province 3, reports The Himalayan Times.