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Employees cease work at Janakpur Cigarette Factory over murder, picket DAO 

Jump to full article: Republica (np), 2009-02-17
Author: SURESH YADAV

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Employees of Janakpur Cigarette Factory ceased work on Tuesday to protest the murder of one of their supervisors Narendra Khati.

They are picketing the District Administration Office (DAO) displaying the corpse of Khati. They are demanding that Khati be declared a martyr, his family be provided compensation and employment, and security of all employees be guaranteed.

Meanwhile, police also arrested five persons from Janakpur late Monday in connection with the murder.

Khati, 45, was shot dead allegedly by cadres of Janatantrik Tarai Mukti Morcha - Jwala Singh in Janakpur on Monday evening. Surya Dev Singh, district commander of JTMM (Jwala) owned up the murder of Khati within 10 minutes of Khati being shot. The armed outfit accused the supervisor of spying against the group.

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