Kathmandu, March 24 -- A team from Kavre District Police and Metropolitan Police arrested nine members, including some senior leaders, of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal from Kavre on Saturday morning.
According to police, two senior leaders of the party-Hemanta Prakash Oli 'Sudarshan' and Bijay Shrestha 'Prajwalan'-were among the arrestees.
Oli is in-charge of the mid-central command of the party while Shrestha is the party's "army bureau chief". Shankar Adhikari, Lalit Tamang, Sanjiv Karki, Dev Ghimire, Lokendra Khadka and Dharmaraj Rajbahak are other Chand party members who were arrested.
Oli, one of the five members in Chand's high command, had escaped on Tuesday when police had reached Kafal Danda of Roshi Rural ...