Kathmandu, May 05: Nepal Police have arrested a lawmaker for his alleged involvement during a powerful bomb blast during a public place in 2012 that killed 5 individuals, police aforesaid Monday.

Lawmaker Sanjaya Kumar Shah, a member of the terai-based Sadbhavana Party, was arrested by a team of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police, Xinhua rumored.

Police aforesaid investigations discovered that Shah was the mastermind behind the blast. it’s the primary case in which a lawmaker within the current Constituent Assembly has been arrested on criminal charges.

Superintendent of Police Uttam Subedi told media that Shah would be conferred in court and formally charged.

A former state minister for physical planning and works, Shah was the sole directly elective  leader of the Sadbhavana Party within the 2013 elections to the second Constituent Assembly.