KATHMANDU: Police on Thursday reportedly barred bank staffers in Kathmandu from going to their offices on the first day of the week-long prohibitory order.

Nepal Bankers’ Association (NBA), meanwhile, instructed its members to shut the services today as a protest to the police action.

NBA President Bhuwan Kumar Dahal said that since the police troubled the bank staffers, he gave the instruction to close the banks today.

According to some bankers, a few chief executive officers (CEO) of the banks were also stopped on the street.

Dahal said the police, in fact, should not have stopped the bank staffers as the bankers had agreed with the Chief District Office to open eight branches of a bank in the valley — five in Kathmandu, two in Lalitpur, and one in Bhaktapur.