Indian police identified the arrested Maoist as 29-year-old Shankar Raj Pant.
A 9 mm pistol and its bullets were seized from him. During preliminary interrogation Panta told the Indian police he was about to go to India to sell the pistol verified by the UNMIN in India, according to commanding officer of SSB SS Bhagat.
Pant had stolen the pistol from the PLA cantonment at Talband of Kailali. Panta has been kept at Tanakpur police office for further investigation.
Meanwhile, our Biratnagar correspondent reported that the Indian police on Friday arrested a Maoist People´s Liberation Army (PLA) member Tej Narayan Chaudhary along with a girl and later handed them over to the police in suspicion of being involved in girl trafficking.
It is found that Chaudhary remained outside the United Nations-monitored PLA cantonment situated at Chulachuli in Ilam district for the last three months.
Indian police arrested him with an eighteen year old girl at Jogbani border point while they were preparing to go to New Delhi. Police said they were arrested and subsequently handed over to the Nepal police as Indian volunteers mobilized in the border point found their activities suspicious. However, Chaudhary claimed that the girl was his wife.
Later, Morang police handed them over to the Maoist´s Young Communist League. DSP Bidya Nanda Majhi of Morang District Police Office said that Chaudhary and the girl were handed over to the Maoist party´s youth wing as both of them were found innocent.
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