The court also issued orders to ban the sale of property belonging to other three Maoist cadres - Brigade Commander Keshav Adhikari, vice commander Ganga Ram Thapa and diver Arjun Karki - accused of involvement in the murder.[break]
Shrestha, a businessman from Koteshwor, Kathmandu, was murdered in the Maoists Third Division Cantonment in Shaktikhor, Chitwan. A murder case against the four Maoist cadres is sub judice at the Chitwan District Court. Kham is the Maoist Third Division Commander and a central member of the UCPN (Maoist).
None of the accused except Maoist Brigade Commander Gobinda Bahadur Batala has been arrested in connection with the murder so far.
The Maoists have admitted that Adhikari and Thapa had beaten Shrestha to death inside the cantonment last year.
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