(Updated with relaxation of curfew at 1415 NST, 0830 GMT)
MAHENDRANAGAR, March 4: An indefinite curfew clamped by local administration forced local newspapers to suspend their publications on Tuesday. As a result, seven out of eight daily newspapers being published here were not published on Wednesday.
Copies of Abhiyan Daily have been dumped in the press because the publishers could not take the papers to market.
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The local administration has not provided curfew pass to journalists. Police have thrashed journalists who wanted to continue their work during the curfew hours. The curfew was lifted at 10 am Wednesday.
Police thrashed Suresh Dhami, a reporter for Kathmandu-based Image Channel early in the morning. A local Mahakali FM Reporter Prem Bhatta was also beaten by police while he was heading to the FM station to run morning programs. Police have detained him.
Police severely beat up Annapurna Post Daily’s reporter Rajendra Bhatta Tuesday evening. He is receiving treatment at Mahakali Zonal Hospital.
The curfew has left more than 200 people stranded at Gaddachouki of neighboring India. They were returning home from India.
Local administration had clamped curfew in Kanchanpur at 8 pm Tuesday after student demonstration, organized to exert pressure on the government to set up Far-Western University in Mahendranagar, turned violent. “It (curfew) will continue until we receive orders from above (to relax it),” said Police Superintendent Madhav Nepal.
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