KATHMANDU, March 20: Police have arrested four commanders of Netra Bikram Chand-led Nepal Communist Party from Kavre.

A squad of police deployed from Metropolitan Police Crime Division Kathmandu arrested four commanders namely Shiva Dhital (Jhapa), Nripa Bahadur BK (Dang), Dikendra Rai (Bhojpur) and Bishal Tamang (Sindhupalchowk) during their raid in the district.

It is learnt that the arrested were brought to Kathmandu Tuesday night and subsequently kept into custody.

The four commanders were arrested following police and cadres of the Chand-led NCP exchanged gunfire at Roshi Rural Municipality in Kavre on Tuesday evening.

Police opened fire to retaliate in self-defense after the NCP cadres started firing at the team, according to police sources.

The arrest of the four NCP commanders comes a week after the government put ban on the activities of the semi-underground Chand-led party after the party intensified violent activities including extortion drive in different parts of the country.

The Chand-led party had carried out two major blasts in the capital in the interval of two months, in which, one person was killed and two persons sustained injuries. In its press statements, the Chand-led Party had taken the responsibility of both the blasts.

The Chand-led political outfit is one of the splinter factions of the former Maoist rebel party which entered the mainstream peaceful politics in 2006 after the end of the decade long armed insurgency which had started in 1996.

 
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