Loknath Panth (42), a Nepali national, was apprehended Thursday by Special Staff of Central District police while he was on his way to New Delhi Railway Station from Karol Bagh, a senior police official said.[break]
"He is suspected to be a member of a Nepali Maoist group," the official said. Investigators claimed that Panth came to India for the first time in 1985 and worked in a factory in Ludhiana, Punjab.
On his father´s death, he returned to Nepal and is suspected to be working for a Maoists group. He is being interrogated to unearth his links with Maoist groups in India to whom he is suspected to be supplying the explosives, the official said.
The arrest came after police received information that a Nepali citizen who is an active member of a Maoist Group is involved in supplying explosives to some Maoists hiding in Karol Bagh. As many as 498 non-electronic detonators were recovered besides some fake Nepali currency, the official said.
A 27-metre explosive safety fuse wire has also been recovered from him. Investigators suspect that he used to supply the detonators to Nepali Maoists when they were an underground outfit.
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