NUWAKOT, Nov 21 - Cadres of the Young Communist League (YCL) briefly abducted three passengers and severely thrashed them at Bandre in Nuwakot district, Tuesday.

YCL cadres intercepted Dambar Gubhaju of Sindhupalchok, Pramod Deuja of Bhaktapur and Lakpa Gyaljon of Rasuwa while they were headed for Trishuli from Rasuwa, and took them away to the YCL office. The victims said the YCL cadres bashed them up and also looted their mobile sets and Rs 25,000 in cash.

The YCL cadres seized their private car (Ba 1 Cha 6215) and later ditched it into the Trishuli river from a nearby bridge.

Similarly, YCL cadres seized a house and land belonging to Balananda Bhurtel at Dhankuta, Tuesday. YCL district chairman Nirmal said they captured his property as he was launching anti-democratic campaigns.

Similarly, Maoists in Hasandaha VDC-1 of Morang district Tuesday seized a house and over 16 bighha of land belonging to Semanta Raj Adhikari, a freedom fighter during the Rana and Panchayat regimes.

Maoists forcefully take away ex-colleague

Meanwhile in Makwanpur, Maoists have forcefully taken a minor girl who had left the cantonment, back to the camp.

A Maoist army battalion, under the leadership of Nirantar, took Chamelimaya Moktan, 15, of Tistung VDC-5 from Naukhande on Monday. HimRights, a rights organization in Makwanpur, said the Maoists forcefully took Chamelimaya, who was working as a tailor here.

Chamelimaya had left a satellite camp of Rakshauli in Chitwan on April 26, after the first verification by the UN Mission in Nepal. Her relatives have approached police after Maoists forcefully took her back to the cantonment. Following a request from family members, police had seized the Maoist vehicle at Hetauda in which Chamelimaya was being taken to the camp. But the Maoists insisted she should be taken to the camp for second round of verification.