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The army personnel belonging to Ranger Battalion picketed the police office by obstructing vehicular movement along the Sohrakhutte-Pakanajol section of the road at around 7 a.m. [break]
The army men, who came out of the Battalion for morning exercise, had posed themselves as doing physical exercises, threatening verbally to the policemen serving there. While half of them were in combat dress, the remaining were in T-shirts with the Ranger Battalion printed on them.
Police sources said Inspector Rugam Kunwar, who heads the office, has been receiving threats from a mobile number, which reportedly belongs to Nepal Army´s Major Sanjay Jung Rayamajhi, since afternoon.
Chief of Metropolitan Police Range Office, Kathmandu, SP Ganesh KC said he has informed the police headquarters about the case. "We have taken the matter seriously," he said.
It is believed that the army personnel could have resorted to the move in revenge against the arrest of eight army personnel by the police from Thamel a few days ago.
Sohrakhutte police had arrested eight persons including Major Rayamajhi in inebriated condition at 2 am on April 9. The police had then conducted their medical checkup and handed them over to the Military Police after the eight identified themselves as army personnel from the Ranger Battalion.
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