Senior leader of Mohan Baidya-led CPN Revolutionary Maoist CP Gajurel has been arrested on Sunday.
Gajurel has been arrested while trying to breach the prohibited zone at Hanumansthan to submit memorandum letter during the agitation for national independence, according to the Chief of Metropolitan Police Range Kathmandu SSP Uttam Subedi. He has been kept at the Nepal Police Club.
A group led by Gajurel had pelted stones at the police while protesting encroachment of Nepali land by India. A police inspector and sub-inspector were injured due to the pelting of stones, according to SSP Subedi.