Police have arrested two student leaders close to the Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) with a cache of explosives in Sindhuli district. Rajan Basnet of Mithila Municipality-10 in Dhanusha and Purna Bahadur Bhujel of Hariharpurgadhi Rural Municipality-7 in Sindhuli were held with the explosives from Hariharpurgadhi-6 on Friday, said police. The suspects were paraded amid a press meet on Saturday. Basnet is the central member, while Bhujel is the Sindhuli chairman of the student organisation affiliated to the CPN. The security personnel seized 57 gelatins, three detonators, two digital multi-metres, two metres date cord wire, a pair of scissors and some documents from the duo. A Pulsar motorcycle (Ba 38 Pa 4286) used by the suspects was also confiscated. Police have intensified its security surveillance in the district with the rise in violent activities by the CPN activists in the area. The security personnel have been deployed in remote Hariharpurgadhi area suspecting that the CPN has made the area as “shelter” of its eastern command of Mechi, Koshi and Janakpur zones. Police claimed that the CPN had been using seven Kattha of land near Kalilek forest on the border between Sindhuli and Sarlahi districts as the outfit’s “military training centre”. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Binod Sharma quoted the detainees as saying that Chanda laid the foundation stone to construct the training centre and conferred 150 people who passed the training 10 days ago. The CPN cadres torched equipment and vehicles belonging to a construction company on the Dharan-Chatara road on April 2, destroying properties worth around Rs 30 million. The outfit had torched a Ncell repeater tower in Marin Rural Municipality and threatened the elected people’s representatives in the local units to resign. DSP Sharma said the district police initiated ‘search and arrest’ strategy following a surge in violent activities by the CPN. “We will take action against those who carry out violent activities,” he said. प्रहरीले ठूलो परिमाणमा विस्फोटक पदार्थसहित नेकपा (विप्लव समूह) का दुई जना विद्यार्थी नेतालाई पक्राउ गरेको छ । शुक्रबार सिन्धुलीको हरिहरपुरगढी गाउँपालिकाबाट पक्राउ गरि प्रहरीले शनिबार सार्वजनिक गरेको छ । विष्फोटक पदार्थसहित पक्राउ परेको विप्लव समूहका विद्यार्थी नेतालाई सार्वजनिक गर्दै प्रहरी । जिल्ला प्रहरी कार्यालयबाट गएको गस्ती टोलीले हरिहरपुरगढी गाउँपालिका ६ को कौवाडाडाबाट विस्फोटक पदार्थ तथा अन्य सामाग्री सहित उनीहरुलाई प्रहरीले पक्राउ गरेको थियो । पक्राउ पर्नेमा धनुषाको मिथिला नगरपालिका १० का २२ वर्षीय राजन बस्नेत र हरिहरपुरगढी गाउँपालिका ७ का पूर्णबहादुर भुजेल रहेका छन् । बस्नेत उक्त समूहका विद्यार्थीका केन्द्रिय सदस्य हुन् भने भुजेल जिल्ला अध्यक्ष छन् । उनीहरुको साथबाट प्रहरीले जिलेटिन–(नियोजेल ९०) ५७ वटा, डेटकर्ड तार २ मीटर, डिजिटल मल्टिमीटर २ थान, डेटोनेटर ३ पीस, कैंची १ थान, मोबाइल २ थान, बा ३८ प ४२८६ नम्बरको पल्सर मोटरसाइकल, क्यानखोला नियन्त्रण उपभोक्ता समितिको छाप, नगद तीनहजार ८ सय बरामद गरिएको प्रहरी नायब उपरीक्षक विनोद शर्माले जानकारी दिए । धरान–चतरा हुँदै मकवानपुरको हेटौंडा जोड्ने सडक निर्माण कम्पनीका सवारी साधनमा उक्त समूहका कार्यकर्ताले चैत्र १९ गते विष्फोटन र आगजनी गरेका थिए । मरिण गाउँपालिकामा रहेको एनसेलको टावर तथा जनप्रतिनिधिहरुलाई राजिनामा दिन धम्की सहितको पत्र विप्लव समूहले गर्न थालेपछि ‘सर्च एण्ड एरेष्ट’को रणनीति लिएर रेकी गर्दै उनीहरुलाई पक्राउ गर्न सफल भएको डीएसपी शर्माले बताए । प्रहरीले यसअघि सोही समूहका तीनजनालाइ पक्राउ गरेको छ ।