PANCHTHAR, April 25 - Maoist cadres have cut off the water pipeline at Southern Angnapanch and Dhukuri VDCs in Panchthar district saying that the villagers did not vote the CPN-Maoist candidates in the Constituent Assembly (CA) election. The Dhukuri residents had been consuming water from the same pipeline since three years which was brought from the resource of Hyanghyang River. Around seventy families of the area had been relying on the source for water.

The Maoists cut off the water pipes at the four places and hoisted their party flags saying that the next government is going to be led by their party, Consumers’ Committee Secretary Chandra Dahal said.

The Maoists cut off the water supply pipe so as to inflict torture to the people who cast their votes for the Nepali Congress in the CA election, locals said.