KATHMANDU, Feb 10 Kyodo (EDS: UPD...

KATHMANDU, Feb 10 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH MAOIST CONFIRMATION OF ARRESTS)

The warring Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) confirmed late Tuesday the arrest and handover to Nepal of brace of its senior leaders on India, and demanded their immediate release.

Party President Puspa Kamal Dahal, in a statement, said politburo member Matrika Yadav and alternate member Suresh Ale Magar were held and handed through the whole extent of to Nepalese authorities by the Indian control last Sunday.

His party ''is angry at the arrest and handover and calls forward all human rights form into groupss intellectuals, and civil society of Nepal and India to raise business and voices for their release,'' said Dahal, who is widely known as Prachanda.

Earlier Tuesday, a Nepalese newspaper reported the arrest and handover of the sum of two units Maoist leaders as the latest case of India's assistance to Nepal in tackling the Himalayan kingdom's eight-year insurgency.

India, which shares a 1,445-kilometer render free of access border with Nepal, is oftentimes castigated for allegedly giving shelter to Nepalese rebel leaders, charges India denies.

The Kantipur daily said Yadav and Magar were arrested by means of Indian security forces in Lucknow, northern India, forward a tip from the Nepalese government

Yadav was a member of the Maoist rebel team in peace talks with the Nepalese direction and Magar is a senior ideologue of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist).

The peace talks collapsed last August.

The Indian regulation has pledged to arrest Nepalese rebels when information about their manner of movings inside India is available.

Last August, senior Maoist rebel leader CP Gajurel was arrested in Chennai, southern India, in succession his way to London.

He is being tried by means of an Indian court for carrying a fake passport.

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