KATHMANDU: Politburo member of Nepal Communist Party led by Netra Bikram Chand aka Biplav, Mohan Karki has been arrested in Lalitpur.
According to Karki’s family sources, Karki was arrested from Lalitpur yesterday evening. It is the most high-profile arrest made ever following the ban on the Biplav outfit imposed by the government.
The government put a ban on the activities of the Biplav-led party after it carried out a series of bomb explosions in various places including the one in Bhainsepati, in which a man was killed and two others sustained injures.
Police have launched a ‘search and arrest’ operation against Biplav’s activities following the government’s decision.
As many as 411 leaders and cadres of Biplav group were arrested in the last 11 months, 73 in the last one month alone.
Most of the Biplav cadres and leaders have gone underground since the police imposed this operation.
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