Maoists bar Indian vehicles in Nepal

KATHMANDU: Nepal Maoists forced Indian vehicles to return to India, accusing its neighbour of encroaching upon Nepalese territory, a news report has said. Accusing India of encroaching upon Nepalese territory and alleging that Indian vehicles were plying in the Himalayan state illegally without paying any tax, Young Communist League (YCL), the Maoist youth wing, turned back at least 50 vehicles to India at the Pashupati Nagar customs point while taking out a rally on Sunday. Security has been beefed up at the Pashupati Nagar customs point along the Nepal-India border after Indian vehicles were forced to return to India. The situation was tense after around 100 YCL cadres shouted slogans such as "stop border encroachment," "down with expansionism" at the border point. Following the YCL activities, top Indian border security officials, expressing serious concern over the incident, have stepped up ‘inspections" of the bordering areas.

Source: The Times of India, May 29, 2007