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Disqualified fighters held with weapons
KATHMANDU, JUN 24 -
Police arrested seven UCPN (Maoist) combatants, including two disqualified from a Durbar Marg-based café in the Capital with unregistered weapons on Wednesday night. Acting on a tip-off, a special squad deployed by the Metropolitan Police Crime Division Hanumandhoka (MPCD) arrested 22-year-old Hom Bahadur Thapa, 24-year-old Jay Ram Tamang and 22-year-old Milan Chakre Majhi of Sindhupalchwok, and 20-year-old Rajesh Thami and 20-year-old Rajan Tamang of Dolakha, 21-year-old Rabi Thapa of Rolpa and 20-year-old Krishna Maharjan of Manamainju in the Capital. Police confiscated one homemade pistol and its two bullets and two knives from two of the arrestees— Milan Chakre Majhi and Rajan Tamang—who turned out to be the disqualified combatants of the Maoists. Police officers at the MPCD said that they were rounded up as part of a special security plan to curb crime in the Capital.
The detained Maoist combatants told the investigators that they had taken leave from the cantonment for a jaunt to the Capital.
The MPCD handed over the arrestees to the Metropolitan Police Range Hanumandhoka, which subsequently handed over five combatants living in cantonment to UNMIN representatives.
However, the two disqualified Maoist combatants have been put in custody on a charge of arms possession. Police also said further investigation was underway to ascertain their motive.
Posted on: 2010-06-25 07:50
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