Information About Incident 36765-69815-166403 in Siraha Nepal

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Kantipuronline reports that Police on January 18 arrested a Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (Unified CPN-Maoist) cadre, Shrawan Yadav, from his house in the Rampurbirta area of Siraha District on the charge of murdering the Janakpur-based journalist Uma Singh.

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• Meta Location: Nepal Rampurbirta Siraha District
• Matched District: Siraha
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: Police
• Subject: a Unified Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist ( Unified CPN - Maoist ) cadre , Shrawan Yadav ,

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Kantipuronline reports that Police on January 18 arrested a Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (Unified CPN-Maoist) cadre, Shrawan Yadav, from his house in the Rampurbirta area of Siraha District on the charge of murdering the Janakpur-based journalist Uma Singh. Yadav, the Maoist''s regional committee member of Siraha-5, was arrested on the basis of a statement given by Nemlal Paswan, another accused, who was arrested from Saghar in the Dhanusha District on January 17. According to Police, Paswan is an army commander of the Terai Ekata Parishad and a notorious criminal. The Maoist Siraha in-charge, Dilip Sah, confirmed Yadav as their regional committee member.

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