Suspected Nepal Maoist held with explosives

A Nepalese national with suspected Maoist links was arrested in the Capital on Friday on charges of smuggling explosives across the border to Nepal.

The arrest followed a police raid at a house in Karol Bagh where the accused,42-year-old Lok Nath Panth,was reportedly staying with an acquaintance. The police also seized 498 non-electric detonators and 27 m of fuse wire from the suspect.

Panth has no previous criminal record in India. According to the police,after arriving from Nepal,he collected the explosives from a contact in Bhivani,Haryana.

He was on his way back to Nepal,where he was supposed to hand over the explosives to one Jakh Bahadur,a Nepali citizen with suspected Maoist links.

The police say the type of detonators seized are difficult to procure in Nepal and are usually smuggled from India by carriers and supplied there. The accused used to work in factory in Ludhiana a few years ago. We have sent a team to Bhiwani to investigate the source of the explosives, said Jaspal Singh,Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central).

The reporter is a student of Express Institute of Media Studies

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