Information About Incident 69268-141955-360367 in Okhaldhunga Nepal

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A former Communist Party Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) cadre Pushkar Gautam, who was convicted of killing Ujjan Kumar Shrestha of Tarkerabari on June 24, 1998, by the Okhaldhunga District Court and had been on the run for two years, was arrested from Bagbazaar in Okhaldhunga District on May 13 and sent to Sundhara Central Jail to serve life sentence, reports The Himalayan Times.

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A former Communist Party Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) cadre Pushkar Gautam, who was convicted of killing Ujjan Kumar Shrestha of Tarkerabari on June 24, 1998, by the Okhaldhunga District Court and had been on the run for two years, was arrested from Bagbazaar in Okhaldhunga District on May 13 and sent to Sundhara Central Jail to serve life sentence, reports The Himalayan Times. Gautam, district member of the then CPN-Maoist, was charged with assisting then CPN-Maoist leader Balkrishna Dhungel to shoot Shrestha dead. The same court, on May 10, 2004, had slapped life sentence on Dhungel, along with confiscation of all his property, identifying him as the mastermind behind the killing of Shrestha.

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69268-141955-360367 5/14/2014 Nepal Former CPN-Maoist cadre arrested, sent to jail

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