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India deports to Nepal four alleged Maoist sympathizers
Kathmandu, July 17: Four Nepalese arrested in India for advocating a Maoist revolution back home have been deported to Kathmandu and could face life in prison, officials said today.
Kathmandu, July 17: Four Nepalese arrested in India
for advocating a Maoist revolution back home have been
deported to Kathmandu and could face life in prison, officials
said today.
The four Nepalese nationals, two of whom published a
pro-Maoist newspaper out of New Delhi, were arrested last week
in the Indian capital and brought to the Nepalese border town
of Nepalgunj, sources at Nepal's home ministry and the Indian Embassy here said.
The three men and one woman were flown in separate planes to Kathmandu yesterday. Officials said they would be charged with encouraging the "terrorist activities" of the Maoists, a charge that carries up to life imprisonment. Officials said it had not yet been decided how the alleged Maoist sympathizers would be tried.
It is the first deportation of its kind from India to Nepal, although previously New Delhi has sent back rebels injured in fighting who had crossed the border.
Two of the arrested men were identified as Maheswori Dahal and Moti Prasad Sapkota, who published a newspaper called Nepali Awaaz ("Nepal's Voice") in New Delhi. Another arrested was Ram Kharki, alias Partha Chetriya who ran a small newspaper in a town near Darjeeling in eastern India. The woman was identified only as Aditi, a Nepalese student in India.
The four were picked up July 11 in New Delhi as they attended a meeting which Nepalese authorities alleged was a "coordination session" for the Maoists.
Bureau Report
The three men and one woman were flown in separate planes to Kathmandu yesterday. Officials said they would be charged with encouraging the "terrorist activities" of the Maoists, a charge that carries up to life imprisonment. Officials said it had not yet been decided how the alleged Maoist sympathizers would be tried.
It is the first deportation of its kind from India to Nepal, although previously New Delhi has sent back rebels injured in fighting who had crossed the border.
Two of the arrested men were identified as Maheswori Dahal and Moti Prasad Sapkota, who published a newspaper called Nepali Awaaz ("Nepal's Voice") in New Delhi. Another arrested was Ram Kharki, alias Partha Chetriya who ran a small newspaper in a town near Darjeeling in eastern India. The woman was identified only as Aditi, a Nepalese student in India.
The four were picked up July 11 in New Delhi as they attended a meeting which Nepalese authorities alleged was a "coordination session" for the Maoists.
Bureau Report