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Kathmandu Saturday November 04, 2000 Kartik 19, 2057.
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Thus Maoists surrender to
police
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Nov 3 - Police have arrested
three Maoist guerrillas, including a district-level cadre, from Kailali and Jajarkot. They
also seized arms and ammunition.
According to the police, two Maoist
activists Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 44, and Deshu Ram Chaudhary, 33, were arrested on
Wednesday in south-eastern Narayanpur Village Development Committee-8 of Kailali district.
Police confiscated a pistol, several rounds
of cartridges and valuable documents from the rebels. Suspected of being a district-level
cadre, Bhattarai was accused of destroying a local telephone booth and looting the
house of a local, Rupak Malla at Darakh, police said.
Both rebels have been brought to Dhangadhi,
the district headquarters, for legal action. Underground Bhattarai was suspected to have
been killed in an encounter with the police.
Another report from the insurgency-hit
remote hill district Jajarkot in the mid-western region said 22-year-old Maoist
cadre Lokendra Bahadur Chand handed himself over to the local administration along with
arms and ammunition.
Though the Maoist runaway, Chand, handed
himself over to the administration on October 15, police made it public much later.
Involved in the insurgency from the very
beginning in 1996, "Chand participated in the daring raids in Dunai, the district
headquarters of Dolpa, on September 25, Panch Katiya police station in Jajarkot on June 7,
Gharti Gaon in Rolpa and Taksera in Rukum districts," police quoted him as saying.
Asked why the administration chose to
make a public announcement of his surrender much later, Chief District Officer Rishikesh
Niraula said "Chand did not formally handed himself over to the administration."
After he surrenderd himself to the police,
an 18-member contingent of Royal Nepal Army led by a captain and police force led by a
Police Inspector recovered a 303 rifle and 40 rounds of cartridges from a cache in a
jungle of Khlanga VDC-8.
The rifle was looted from Panch Katiya Area
Police Station in an incident in which 12 police personnel and seven civilians were
killed.
Chand fled the Maoist camp located at
Khalanga VDC-8 while he was guarding his Maoist central committee leader comrade Bhrun (a
nickname) and a group of rebels.
Police said Chand who was in police uniform
drank a lot of alcohol "to gather courage" before handing himself over to the
local administration.
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