KATHMANDU: Kaushal Kumar Yadav, a former lawmaker from Madhes province, has been arrested on murder case.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Armed Police Force’s Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Thaman BK.

According to District Police Office Mahottari spokesperson DSP Santulal Jaiswal, Yadav was apprehended from Samsi-5, Pokharibanda and was presented to the District Court Mahottari on Sunday.

Yadav, a leader of the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (LSP), had been evading capture for an extended period.

He was elected as a provincial assembly member from Mahottari-4 (A) in the 2017 elections from the then Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum.

Before the 2022 elections, he was expelled from the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) and contested the election from the LSP but was defeated.

He remained a fugitive during the court proceedings.

On December 4, 2023, the Mahottari District Court sentenced LSP Madhes Province Parliamentary Party leader Abhiram Sharma and six others to life imprisonment for the murder of ASI BK.

CPN-UML House of Representatives member Laxmi Mahato and Pawan Kapar, who was in custody for trial, were acquitted.

ASI Thaman BK was killed on September 11, 2015, during the Madhes movement in Mahottari.

A case of premeditated murder was registered against 28 individuals in the Mahottari District Court on August 3, 2018.