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By Rabindra Upreti

MAHOTTARI, March 14 - Editor of Janadesh weekly Krishna Sen said authorities forced him to sign papers stating his release but in reality he was moved to another jail and continued to remain in custody.

Sen, who was reported missing since his release over the weekend and then re-arrested by

authorities, said he was actually transferred to Jaleswor Jail but did not even know where he was.

Sen was arrested by the authorities two years ago and put into custody. He was released on Sunday by the authorities but since then there had been no news about his whereabouts for the next two days.

It was only some time later that did authorities admit Sen had been re-arrested and put back into the police custody.

Talking to The Kathmandu Post in Jaleswor prison today, Sen said that he was kept for two hours at the Janakpur-based Regional Police Office on Sunday morning and brought to Area Police Office at Gausala in Mohottari for the next three days. He said he was arrested and kept in custody without a warrant.

"Police put me in the custody at the Gausala-based Area Police Station after completing paper works in Janakpur," Sen told The Kathmandu Post. "I sensed another conspiracy from the authorities after I was released from the Rajbiraj-based jail on Saturday night."

About 8 p.m. on Saturday, jail authorities gave him verbal notice about his release and told him to come out of the jail.

"But I refused to be released at night. They waited till early Sunday and dragged me out of bed while I was wearing only an underwear and a vest and brought me to Janakpur."

Sen said he had no idea where he was moved to and he came to know about his transfer to the

Jaleswor jail only after reading newspapers in the jail. He also charged that some wrong information was fed in the media about him by the authorities.

Sen said although media reported about his release five days ago, police forced him to sign an

acquittal paper on Sunday noon at Gausala Area Police Station.

"I was forced to sign the paper of my acquittal from Saptari jail while I was in Jaleswor prison and I was kept in custody without any warrant paper for three days," Sen lamented.

Commenting on Chief District Officer in Mahottari, Laxmi Prasad Bhattarai’s statement, Sen said CDO Bhattarai handed over him a letters of detention only after he was put into the Jaleswor jail. Sen has now been put behind the bars under the Public Security Act.

CDO Bhattarai could not be reached for comment for he left the district today for Madhubani, India to take part in Nepal-India border meet. Sen said the government’s act against him was the gross violation of human rights and the Supreme Court’s decision of his release from illegal detention.

The Supreme Court issuing a writ of habeas corpus had released Sen last week, who had been in custody nearly for two years on charges of possessing of illegal arms.

Sen’s paper is considered sympathetic towards the Nepal Communist Party (Maoists) that has been waging a guerrilla war for the past five years that has claimed over 1,500 lives.

(Kathmandu Post, March 15,2001)