The group damaged computers, window panes, cupboards and CCTV cameras worth Rs 1.6 millions purportedly for defying a strike called by the UCPN (Maoist).[break]
NPI principal Baburam Upadhyay has filed a case against six people, one Durlav Shah, for vandalism at District Police Office, Chitwan.
Shah is a former NPI student and a member of All Nepal National Independent Student Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R), a student wing of the UCPN (Maoist).
“The goons used the pretext of running classes for vandalizing our office,” said Shiva Prasad Subedi, the administrative officer of NPI. “We did not send our buses to pick the staff and students and we had also asked the teachers not to report for duty in view of the banda.”
A strike was called for Monday in Chitwan following a clash between the cadres of the UCPN (Maoist) and the CPN (Maoist), the new Maoist party led by Mohan Baidya.
NPI owner Chudamani Khanal, who is also the coordinator of a district-wide alliance of 11 technical institutes, said the vandals might have targeted his institute in order to terrorize all the technical schools for extorting money.
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