Janakpur, July 2 -- Police on Thursday arrested former CPN-UML lawmaker Laxmi Mahato Koiri, a day after the Janakpur High Court sentenced him to five years in prison for the 2015 murder of Armed Police Force Assistant Sub Inspector Thaman BK.

Koiri was arrested at around 6pm in front of the UML party office in ward 5 of Gaushala Municipality, Mahottari district, said Senior Superintendent of Police Prabhu Dhakal, spokesperson for the Madhesh Province Police Office.

He has been taken into custody at the Mahottari District Police Office and will be produced before the court on Friday.

On Wednesday, a joint bench of acting chief judge Tek Bahadur Kunwar and judge Murari Babu Shrestha of the Janakpur High Court sentenced Koiri and former M...