Kathmandu, July 15 -- Majid Ansari, a Gen Z activist who was discharged from hospital after five days on Wednesday, questions the legal basis of his detention by police. He was detained after an altercation with police during a solidarity visit to a holding centre for displaced squatters in Kirtipur on Saturday. According to him, police officers have yet to explain the legal basis for detaining him or provide any arrest documents.

Ansari, a LLB student at Nepal Law Campus, was admitted to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj after he was injured during Saturday's incident at the Kirtipur holding centre, where displaced squatters had been relocated following flooding.

Ansari was among three Gen Z campaigners detained aft...