KATHMANDU: Former Prime Minister and CPN (UML) chairperson KP Sharma Oli has been detained from his residence.

According to Chief of the District Police Range, Bhaktapur, Superintendant of Police (SP), Surya Bahadur Khadka, police arrested former PM Oli this morning from his rented house at Suryabinayak Municipality-7, Gundu.

A police team deployed under the command of SP at the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, Khadka, had reached Gundu at 5.00 am today.

He shared the information that Oli was taken to Kathmandu after arrest.