Police on December 14 arrested Sitadevi Mahara, Province 2 coordinator of Netra Bikram Chand aka Biblab-led Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist-Chand); Lalita Mahara and Ramsovit Gaha, central members of the groupsuspecting their involvement in a bomb blast occurred in Mahendranagar area of Dhanusha District in Province No. 2 on December 13 in which two civilians and one Police Inspector were killed.