Incident Reports

Ghodaghodi locals go on strike demanding action against Mayor’s attackers

2018-03-13

Sudurpashchim, Kailali, Ghodaghodi

Local residents of Ghodaghodi Municipality have disrupted the vehicular movement along the Sukhkhad road section of East-West Highway staging protest against the assault on municipality Mayor Mamata Prasad Chaudhary since Tuesday morning. According to Kailali’s police chief, Superintendent of Police (SP) Binod Ghimire, students’ union affiliated to CPN-UML has disrupted the transport and called on indefinite strike. SP Ghimire, who is at the site, further said, the protesters have demanded to take action against the perpetrators involved in the attack. A group of assailants attacked Mayor Chaudhary at his residence in Sukhkhad Bazaar, at 8:10 pm yesterday, police said. The group who had reached Chaudhary’s residence called him outside and fired shots at him inflicting injuries in his legs and waist, and injured his head with a khukuri, SP Ghimire informed. Following the incident, police rounded up three cadres of Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)-led Communist Party involved in the assault. Police have also confiscated a motorcycle plated Se 2 Pa 3671. Critically injured Chaudhary was rushed to Nepalgunj for further treatment after receiving primary treatment in Ghodaghodi. Meanwhile, Chaudhary who was sent to Kathmandu by helicopter this morning has been undergoing treatment at TU Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj. The Mayor was recently in news for mediating reconciliation in an alleged ‘witchcraft’ case in the district in which Radha Chaudhary of Deukaliya-5 was ruthlessly thrashed. His party CPN-UML had also formed a probe committee to investigate his involvement in the case, while the Biplav-led party had threatened to take action against Chaudhary. The Biplav-led party’s Seti Bureau member Bibek Kumal denied the party’s involvement in the assault. He told THT correspondent over the phone that there was no reason to shoot Chaudhary when the case could have been resolved with talks. Further, Kumal said that the party cadres, arrested on the charge of alleged involvement, are innocent. कैलालीको घोडाघोडी नगरपालिकाका मेयर ममताप्रसाद चौधरीमाथि गोली प्रहार भएको घटनाको बिरोधमा एमाले निकट विद्यार्थी संगठनले पूर्वपश्चिम राजमार्गको सुख्खड खण्ड मंगलबार बिहानैबाट अबरुद्ध गरेका छन् । कैलालीका प्रहरी प्रमुख प्रहरी उपरीक्षक एसपी बिनोद घिमिरेका अनुसार यातायात बजार अबरुद्ध पारेका छन् । उनीहरुले नगरपालिकाको कामकाज समेत अनिश्चित कालका लागि अबरुद्ध पारेको एसपी घिमिरेले जानकारी दिए । उनीहरुले दोषीलाई पक्राउ गरी कारबाहीको दायरामा ल्याउन माग गरेका छन् । एसपी घिमिरे आफै घटनास्थलमा खटिएका छन् । घोडाघोडी नगरपालिकाका मेयर चौधरीमाथि सोमबार साँझ ८ बजेर १० अज्ञात समूहले गोली प्रहार गरेको थियो । मोटरसाइकलमा आएको अज्ञात समूहले गोली प्रहार गरेको प्रहरीले बताएको छ । प्रहरीका अनुसार से२प ३६७१ नम्बरको मोटरसाइकल फेला परेको छ । घटनामा संलग्न भएको आरोपमा बिप्लव नेतृत्वको नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टीका तीन जनालाई प्रहरीले पक्राउ गरेको छ । उनीहरुलाई सुख्खड बजार आसपासबाट पक्राउ गरिएको प्रहरीले भनाइ छ । घाइते चौधरीको नेपालगञ्ज मेडिकल कलेजमा उपचार भइरहेको छ । उनको टाउको कम्मरमा गोली लागेको छ । मेयर चौधरीमाथि खुकुरी प्रहार समेत भएको प्रहरीले जानकारी दिएको छ । चौधरी सुख्खड बजार नजिक आफ्नो घरमा बसिरहेको बेला नचिनेका मान्छेहरुको समुहले काम छ भन्दै घर बाहिर लगेर गोली र खुकुरी प्रहार गरेको कैलालीका प्रमुख जिल्ला अधिकारी गोबिन्द रिजालले बताए । कैलाली घोडाघोडी नगरपालिका-५ देउकलीयाकी युवती राधा चौधरीमाथि कथित बोक्सीको आरोपमा कुटपिट भएको घटनामा नगरप्रमुख चौधरीले मिलापत्र गराएको भन्दै यसअघि सर्बत्र बिरोध भएको थियो ।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Collective / Interpersonal Collective
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Issues related to legal action and access to justice
Actor 1 - Number of people 50
Actor 1 - Affiliations Citizen/Individuals , Citizen/Individuals
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health)
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media , Local Newspaper - Mahottari

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