Kathmandu, March 8
A former PLA man has been detained in Kathmandu for campaigning for a bandh on Friday and Saturday, police said,
Ranjit Gurung, who claims to be the leader of a group of former PLAs, was detained in New Road, Kathmandu, authorities said. SSSP Biswaraj Pokhrel told Onlinekhabar that he was held because he was spreading panic among business people in New Road.
Local businessmen had called the police after Pokhrel started telling business owners that his group had called for a strike on Friday. Various groups of former rebel fighters have agitating demanding that their role in the Maoist conflict be recognised by the state. The PLAs were rehabilitated under a ‘golden handshake’ scheme.
