KATHMANDU (TIP): Two Indian nationals were among three people arrested for the murder of a constituent assembly election candidate in Bara district in southern Nepal in October. Police said on Sunday that Mohamed Alam, a CPN (UML) candidate for the November 19 general elections was killed by a rival from his own party Ramchandra Pyasi Kushwaha with help from Indian nationals Atik Khan and Raju Srivastava. Alam was shot outside the a flour mill on October 4 by two men on a motorcycle with Indian license plates and died in hospital in Kathmandu without regaining consciousness a week later. Kushwaha is a former lawmaker while Khan runs a business in Birganj in Nepal and Srivastava is from Indian border city of Raxual. They hired professional assassins to kill Alam, a day after he was announced as a candidate from Bara – 4 constituency. According to the police, there had been two previous unsuccessful attempts to kill Alam. The general elections is expected to be marred by violence as the breakaway CPN-Maoist has declared that it will disrupt the polls and its main target will be candidates of it mother party UCPN (Maoist).
Two Indians among three arrested in Nepal poll candidate murder
