DANG, March 5 -- Police on Tuesday arrested three district leaders of the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal from Tulsipur in Dang district.

The leaders' arrest comes at a time when the government has launched a crackdown on Chand-led party leaders following the detonation of an improvised explosive device near the gate of Ncell head office in Nakkhu, Lalitpur, which claimed the life of one person and injured two others on February 22.

According to the District Police Office, Dang, Chand-led party's district party office member Pradip Oli, district secretariat member Ishwari Pandey and district party member Rudra Oli have been arrested as part of the investigation following the spike in incidents of forceful donations and v...