Teachers held with pistol

KATHMANDU, June 10: Police arrested a schoolteacher, who is also a Maoist cadre, for possessing a homemade pistol on Tuesday night. Acting on a tip-off, police raided the shop of one Rudra Prasad Gautam at Gothepani-8 in Kavre, and found the pistol and some bullets.







Gautam told the police that the pistol was given to him by Hem Prasad Timilsina, another school teacher, and police arrested Timisina too, the police said.

Brandishing his pistol, Gautam had threatened locals over a dispute. Both Gautam and Timilsina are primary level school teachers in a local school.

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