Ashu's choices can be organized in a fashion that Maoists will choose to follow:

Their history shows like this.

Step #1

III. The Maoists will do nothing, and the whole thing blow over in a few days.

Step #2

V. The Maoists will blame the Palace/India/Ametria/______ (fill in the blank with your favorite villain) for inciting janmat against them like this, and use this to argue how this bodes ill for republican causes.

Step #3
I. There will be a SINCERE-sounding, here-we-go-again type of a ready-made 'aatma-alochana' by the Maoist top leaders. They will use all the right words, push all the right emotional buttons, look genuinely contrite on TV, etc . . . they know that they will have to play the part, and they will pay it with all the sincerity of the muskaan on an air hostess's lips!

Step #4
IV. The Maoists will promise to punish the guilty -- (NOT according to the law of the land, but according to how they see fit) . . .  and in a few days, everyone forgets who
was supposed to do what to whom.

Step #5
II. The Maoists will make the government hand out a compensation package of about Rs. 1 million or more to quiet down the victim's family. [One of the greatest pleasures for anyone in power in Nepal is to give away other people's -- in this case, Nepali tax
payers' -- money, and make himself look righteous and generous!]