The Maoists have warned anybody found involved directly against their "people's war" of dire consequences. Popular Nepali comedian, Santosh Pant, who was given an ultimatum to resign within a week complied and stepped down from his post as juniour officer at the Department of Military Intelligence at the Royal Nepalese Army. Pant usually plays lead roles in a popular entertainment programme, Hijo Aajaka Kura, aired over the state-owned Nepal Television once a week. The Maoists targetted him for another tele-serial he produces for the army which dramatises actual life stories of captured Maoists.