Two arrested with counterfeit office pads

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KATHMANDU, Jan. 9: A police team deputed by the Valley Crime Investigation Branch, Hanumandhoka, today, arrested two members of a racket involved in making fake stamps of government offices, signature stamps and counterfeit office pads.

According to police, those arrested are 26-year-old Badal Thebe (Subba) and 22-year-old Santosh Bhandari of Taplejung district currently residing in rented rooms at Koteshwar, Pepsicola, Kathmandu.

The police team, conducting investigations in view of reports that such a racket was active, arrested the two with a photo of a person wearing the uniform of a Royal Nepal Army sergeant, a copy of a School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination marksheet, a copy of a certificate of the Purano Gorakhdal Battalion, a transfer certificate issued by Mahendra Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Taplejung, a pad of fake certificates with 'Moon-sun Dance Restaurant' printed on them and four fake citizenship cards.

The accused have been sent to the District Police Office Kathmandu for legal action.

Maoists release abducted students of Doti

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DOTI, Jan. 9: CPN-Maoist guerrillas on Monday freed altogether 140 students abducted by them from various schools in Doti district.

The terrorists affiliated to the All Nepal National Independent Students' Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R), the student wing of the CPN-Maoists, had taken some 250 students, including girls, from various schools in the district for the so-called district assembly of the ANNISU-R on January 4 and 5.

According to the freed students and security forces, the terrorists had taken them to Lanakedareshwar in the Bogatan area of Doti district.

Since they have been released on condition that they be present at any time they are asked, they have left their studies and are either taking refuge at the district headquarters, Dipayal-Silgadi, or are going to India.

The condition of the remaining students is not yet known.

As there are chances that they might have been taken toward the neighbouring districts of Kailali, Surkhet and Achham, the security forces are conducting search and blocking operations on the possible routes.

UML press statement

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KATHMANDU, Jan. 9: The CPN-UML has published a press statement here today stating that though Suresh Babu Oli of Bardiya district Baniyabhar VDC Jamuniya had been released by the police one day after his arrest, his son Suresh Oli has disappeared from police custody. The CPN-UML has protested his disappearance.

In the statement, the party has demanded that the condition of Suresh Oli be made public and that he be released immediately. It condemned this irresponsible act of the security agency.