Nagarik Unmukti Party (NUP) lawmaker Arun Kumar Chaudhary has been arrested.
Nepal Police Spokesperson DIG Posh Raj Pokharel confirmed that Chaudhary was arrested from Kohalpur in Banke.
"Lawmaker Chaudhary has been arrested from Kohalpur in Banke", DIG Pokharel told Nepalkhabar, "Now he is being taken to District Police Office, Kailali."
Chaudhary had been elected as a lawmaker from Kailali 2.
The District Court, Kailali slapped Chaudhary with a six months’ imprisonment on the charge of burning a tractor.
According to the decision of the court, Chaudhary was elected as a member of the House of Representatives through the November 20 elections, without serving the jail term.
On April 22, 2013,District Court, Kailali had sentenced three people including Chaudhary to six months in jail along with a fine of Rs 818,423 each.
On August 19, 2009, Mahadev Bajgain from Balia village had filed a case in the District Court Kailali with the allegation of burning a private tractor, Lu 2 and 211.
A single bench of District Court Judge Bishnu Subedi issued an order sentencing the trio for six months in jail along with the fine mentioned above.
