DANG, June 16 -- Local leaders of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN), mainly those activists who were recently arrested, have started quitting the outfit.
Police administration releases the detained leaders of the banned political group soon after they announced their resignation. It is still not clear whether the CPN activists had really quit the party or it was just a strategy to get freed from custody.
"We [police] are also not fully convinced that they quit the group simply because they announced their resignation by issuing a statement," said Superintendent of Police Bel Bahadur Pandey, adding that the greed CPN leaders are under police surveillance.
The government in March branded the CPN a criminal group and...