KATHMANDU: Police said they arrested Janajati leader Ang Kaji Sherpa on charge of posting anti-social harmony messages on his Facebook page.

SSP Sarbendra Khanal, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Crime Division, said Sherpa was detained from Bauddha of the Capital by an MPCD team this afternoon.

"On the basis of his Facebook posts," Khanal said, "We have taken him under control for investigation."

Khanal claimed that his Facebook posts were found to be spoiling social harmony and promoting ethnic hatred and clashes.

The controversial Janajati leader is a former general secretary of the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN).

He had recently posted on his Facebook page that the state was differently behaving with Madhesi-Janajati and Brahmin-Chhetri protesters.

Likewise, he had called members of Madhesi and indigenous communities to destroy statues of leaders and writers of Brahmin-Chhetri communities.

"We are currently inquiring him over such posts at our Teku office," Khanal told THT Online, "We can't say now when he will be released."

Meanwhile, issuing a press statement today, Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal Chairman Upendra Yadav demanded release of its central member Sherpa at the earliest.