KATHMANDU, May 28: A man who claimed to be a staff of the UN was temporarily detained at Pulchowk Police Range Office on Thursday morning after he encouraged a taxi driver to violate traffic rule and also manhandled a police constable, police said. [break]
The UN Information Center denied that he is a UN staff or is working for the UN under any capacity.
Dutch national Leonardus Aloisius Josephus was detained for half-an-hour after he ordered the driver of a taxi he was traveling on to ply on the road leading to Harihar Bhawan despite warning by police constable Pawan Sahani who was posted there.
Taxis are barred from plying on that route for security reasons, according to Police Inspector Bhagya Ram Tamang, chief of Pulchowk Police Range Office.
“At nine in the morning, Leonardus asked the taxi driver to violate traffic rules and take him to the UN building,” Tamang told myrepublica.com.
“Constable Sahani stopped the taxi and informed the driver that taxis are not allowed to enter the road,” Tamang said. “Thereafter, Leonardus engaged in an angry discussion with constable Sahani and pushed him,” Tamang said.
Police then took him to Pulchowk Police Range Office where he claimed that he was a UN staff, according to Tamang. He was released half-an-hour later.
Ram Babu Shah, an official at the UN Information Center said, "The person was not a UN staff member. He does not work for UN under any capacity."
Shah said that Leonardus was just visiting the UN premises.
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