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Govt puts price on heads of terrorist leaders By A Staff Reporter Kathmandu, Apr. 23: The government today announced a five-million-rupee reward for each of the three top terrorist leaders, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda), and Mohan Vaidya (Kiran) dead or alive. Anyone who finds them and hands them over dead or alive to the security forces will receive the reward, the Home Ministry said today. A reward of Rs. 3.5 million has been announced for Post Bahadur Bogati, Nanda Kishor Pun, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, C.P. Gajurel and other leaders of their rank. The of reward for the so-called central committee leaders of the terrorists is Rs. 2.5 million, so-called bureau in-charge and platoon commander will fetch Rs. one million each. Anyone providing information leading to the arrest of these terrorists will receive half the amount. An individual giving information about or handing over a GPMG/40mm, rocket launcher, and 81 mm mortar to the security forces will be rewarded with Rs 400,000 each. The reward for an LMG is Rs 300,000, for an SLR Rs100,000, a .303 rifle/SMG Rs 75,000, and for a factory-made pistol/ revolver Rs. 25,000. The government has guaranteed security for those who cooperate. Jobs and secrecy of their information and source of income have alsol been promised. This is the first time the government has put a price on the heads of the terrorist leaders who have been leading a six-year-old Maoist insurgency. The government has so far released the photographs of 40 wanted rebels. Meanwhile, security forces have gunned down 21-armed Maoist terrorists across the nation. The terrorists were involved in terrorising and intimidating people. The security forces have arrested 23 suspects and are interrogating them. The Defence Ministry said that seven terrorists were killed today at Kalidaha of Salyan district while five were killed yesterday at Beldangi of Kanchanpur. Three terrorists were shot to death at Peuka of Rolpa, two each in Mangsingh of Sankuwasabha and Sedha of Dang, and one each in the Jajarkot’s Rimna and Achcham’s Takuradanda. The security men arrested 17 terrorists in Salyan and two each in Sindhuli and Okhaldhunga. One terrorist each was nabbed at Ilam and Kailali. The security personnel recovered pistols, guns and bullets, combat fatigues, explosives, equipment for laying ambush, different sizes of bombs, binoculars and foodstuffs from the sites of the encounters and from those arrested. The Defence Ministry has called upon the common citizens to perform their daily task unhindered and without any fear as the security personnel, instructed with the shoot-at-sight order against persons involved in disruptive actions, are actively engaged in maintaining law and order. The forces airlifted an injured seven-year-old boy of Dandakhark of Dolakha district and brought him to Birendra Military Hospital. Bikash Chapagain,7, had fallen unconscious after falling from a hill. The child, who was being brought to Kathmandu in an ambulance, had to be taken back after the Moists set a barrier on the Lamosangu-Jiri road. Other Stories |
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