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By K. Balchand
battle with the Royal Army there. There have been at least two incidents of crackdown by the Bihar police in East Champaran and Sitamarhi districts along the Indo-Nepal border over the weekend, leading to the arrest of at least nine hardcore members of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists), involved in insurgency activities in the Himalayan Kingdom. The arrests on Friday and Saturday, were a clear indication that those injured in the recent clashes had entered India, taking advantage of the 700 km. porous border along the districts of Bihar. The East Champaran district police nabbed in Raxaul on Friday three Nepali Maoists undergoing treatment at a local clinic for gun shot injuries, which they had apparently suffered in their battle with the Royal Army of Nepal. The Sitamarhi district police took into custody on Saturday six others, including two women activists of the Maoists, from a private clinic where two of them were receiving treatment, while four other accomplices were attending on them. The Bihar IG, Neelmani, regarded the Raxaul catch as significant because all three had affiliation with both the frontal organisations of the CPN(M), the Madhesia Revolutionary Mukti Morcha(MRMM) and the Dalit Mukti Morcha(DMM), both of which are banned in Nepal. Chandrashekhar Baitha happened to be the central committee member of the MRMM, while Ramashray Ram and Ram Swaroop Ram were members of the DMM. In the Sitamarhi operation, the patients nabbed were Dinesh Sharma and Ramesh Sharma. In both the cases, the IB joined the interrogation and through the Union Home Ministry the information about their arrests was conveyed to Kathmandu. Subsequently, their IB too arrived and questioned all those now in the custody of the Bihar police. The Madhesias, according to the police, were being exploited by the insurgents to sneak into Bihar for seeking shelter with their relatives. The dense forests in Bagha and Balmikinagar too provide them a haven when the Army action in Nepal hots up. Considered to be mostly of Indian origin, the Madhesias living in the plains along the border have been extending political and moral support to the Maoists though the police were not sure as to why they had a soft corner for the rebels. The Bihar Government is also looking into the possible nexus of the Nepal Maoists with the banned Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), which is seeking to make inroads into the East and West Champaran districts.
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