Incident Reports
Deputy Mayor tried to attack Mayor with chair in Dhanusha
2020-05-14
Niludevi Kaapar, Deputy Mayor of Sahidnagar Municipality, Dhanusha tried to attack Mayor Vijayshankar Prasad Sah during a meeting held to discuss the budget for Covid-19 quarantine arrangement. Deputy Mayor Kaapar accused Mayor Sah of corruption. When Deputy Mayor Kaapar started making allegation one after another, Mayor Sah also became angry and almost hit the Deputy Mayor.
During the confrontation, Deputy Chief Copper picked up a chair and tried to hit the mayor on the head, but was caught by an executive member.
Details and Impacts
| Violent / Non-violent | Violent |
| Onesided / Twosided | Onesided |
| Collective / Interpersonal | Interpersonal |
| Primary Form | Assault (small group) |
| Weapons | Other |
| Primary Cause | Other governance issues |
| Secondary Cause | Quarantine Management |
| Actor 1 - Number of people | 1 |
| Actor 1 - Affiliations | Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health) |
| Actor 1 - Youth | unknown |
| Actor 2 - Number of people | 1 |
| Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) | Local authorities (incl VDC, district, gov. line agencies at local level except education and health) |
| Actor 2 - Youth | unknown |
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