Nepal Migrant Worker's News

A team of APF men arrested Nepal at around 4:15 this afternoon and took him to the APF barracks at Kakani, Nepal’s PA Yadav Sharma told ekantipur over the phone.

According to Sharma, the APF men handed Nepal a letter which says he has been arrested for 90 days. In the letter, Nepal has been accused of “gathering people from a public place and spreading rumours about the government.”

The APF men had phoned Nepal’s wife before arresting him. “They (police) called me at my office and asked me to come home saying they were arresting him (Nepal),” Nepal’s wife told journalists. 

Only yesterday, APF personnel raided Nepal’s residence and seized some communication devices.

About a dozen APF personnel under the command of Senior Superintendent of Police Madhav Thapa, searched his house and took away a computer, a fax machine, telephone and cordless sets.

In his reaction to the government move, Nepal from the terrace of his house, termed the incident “the height of lawlessness."

The authorities, however, returned all the seized equipment this afternoon.

Nepal was placed under house arrest on January 19. The government extended Nepal’s house arrest on February 20 by an unspecified period.

In yet another move, government authorities this morning stormed into the houses of Nepal’s two brothers at Koteshwor and snatched away electronic appliances including computers and telephone sets.

The government’s action comes in the wake of the seven-party alliance’s intensified preparations for the upcoming “huge mass demonstrations” slated for April.8.