MORANG: Police have arrested Dhan Bahadur BK alias DB Silwal, Morang district in-charge of the outlawed ‘Biplav’ led party Nepal Communist Party with a weapon.

A team of Morang Police arrested BK from Budhiganga-4 in Morang after receiving information that he had extorted donations by threatening industrialists in Morang.

He is from Sankhuwasabha Madi Municipality-4, Okharbote. A semi-automatic pistol and three bullets were also recovered from him.

According to the police, he was involved in the murder of Rajendra Shrestha, a teacher of Miklajung Rural Municipality-1 in Morang on December 8.