Student organisations of three parties on Monday held protests outside the Indian embassy in Kathmandu and Home Minister Janardan Sharma instructed government authorities to secure the release of two Nepali nationals allegedly under detention of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) in Bihar. The students were members of the ruling Coalition Nepali Congress and the Maoist Party as well as the Opposition Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist. They demanded that Deb Narayan Yadav and his son Ahay Yadav, allegedly under SSB detention in Bihar, be released. Nepal Home Minister Sharma instructed the Chief District Officer of Sundar from where the Yadavs hail, to take up the matter with his counterpart in Bihar and secure their release. Deb Narayan and his son had allegedly mobilised villagers from the area and chased away Indians from villages in August last year. Indian authorities are believed to have told the Nepali authorities that the two were detained as a complaint under the anti-dowry act had been lodged with the police. Ajay Yadav is married in Bihar. ADGP (headquarters) S K Singhal said: “An SSB post at Jaynagar Madhubani arrested Deb Narayan Yadav in connection with an Arms Act case.”
