JANAKPUR, Feb 17: Employees of Janakpur Cigarette Factory ceased work on Tuesday to protest the murder of one of their supervisors Narendra Khati.

They are picketing the District Administration Office (DAO) displaying the corpse of Khati. They are demanding that Khati be declared a martyr, his family be provided compensation and employment, and security of all employees be guaranteed.

Meanwhile, police also arrested five persons from Janakpur late Monday in connection with the murder.

Khati, 45, was shot dead allegedly by cadres of Janatantrik Tarai Mukti Morcha - Jwala Singh in Janakpur on Monday evening. Surya Dev Singh, district commander of JTMM (Jwala) owned up the murder of Khati within 10 minutes of Khati being shot. The armed outfit accused the supervisor of spying against the group.

Among the arrested is a JTMM cadre Rakesh Pandey aka Bijli Singh of Janakpur Municpality-7. Police also arrested one Mohammad Mukim Raeen of Bindhi-6, Dhanusha along with Pandey.

Three other people were arrested from another place in this eastern city on Monday night – Chandeshwar Nepali of Baphai-2, Dhanusha and Samant Kumar Mandal of Giddha-9, Dhanusha and Khusbu Alam of Bhramarpura-6, Mahottari.