Police have arrested Sujit BK, the main accused in the murder of UML affiliated Youth Force leader Prachanda Thaiba in Butwal one-and-half years ago, from a guest house in Kathmandu, Thursday.
Police tracked him down based on a special tip-off that BK was staying in disguise in Kathmandu.
BK is charged of shooting Thaiba on March 26, 2009. UML had claimed BK's involvement in the murder soon after the incident. Clashes had triggered in Butwal following Thaiba's murder forcing the administration to impose a curfew.
UML lawmakers had obstructed normal proceeding of the legislature parliament for several days in protest of the Thaiba's murder and demanding BK's arrest.
BK was the in district in charge of Unified CPN (Maoist) affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) at the time of the incident.
Although, UCPN (Maoist) denied involvement of its party cadre in the incident, it had suspended BK from general membership of the party later.
It had also promised to hand over BK to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), but later said, he ran away on the way.
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