The Maoist cadres chanted slogans in favor of murder-convict leader Bal Krishna Dhungel, while a small crowd of Occupy Baluwater campaigners continued their protest just nearby, informed Arpan Shrestha, a journalist, who was at the site during that time.
Police intervened to ward off a possible confrontation between the two groups of protesters but detained, surprisingly, only the Occupy Baluwatar campaigners, some ten in number, leaving the Maoist cadres to carry on their protest, Shrestha said.
The Maoist cadres also put up posters on the walls, lauding Dhungel as a ‘son of the people’ and demanding that the Maoist leader be cleared of criminal charges and subsequent court sentencing. Dhungel, who was handed life imprisonment by the apex court after being convicted in the murder of of Ujjan Kumar Shrestha in Okhaldhunga during the Maoist-insurgency, still walks scot free.
A public movement against all kinds of violence and discrimination against women, the Occupy Baluwatar campaign has, of late, been pressing for the implementation of the apex court order in Dhungel´s sentencing, especially when the chief justice himself is heading the executive.
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