According to the highway obstructers, security personnel had misbehaved with taxi driver Milan BK while he was on the way to Ilam from Jhapa. [break]
Protesting the ill-treatment by police personnel, the irrate transport workers have brought the vehicular movement here into a standstill. The short-and-long distance vehicles in Ilam, Panchthar, Taplejung and Jhapa have been entirely halted as its effect.
However, the police have denied the charge of misbehaving the taxi driver.
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