DIGNITY REPORTER
KATHMANDU, APRIL 27
A Dalit youth of Khadak Municipality-4, Saptari district has been attacked to death for helping a person to file a nomination for an independent candidate in the upcoming local polls.
Santa Lal Paswan, 25, was thrashed to death for helping Mahadev Paswan to nominate for ward chairman’s position in the local polls.
According to news reports, he was thrashed on his head with iron rods and was rushed to Nobel Hospital in Biratnagar where he had taken his last breath.
Local Dalit activist Rajdev Ram said Paswan was killed just because he helped a person to contest for ward chairperson as an independent candidate. “Some people of Chaudhary community had threatened him for fielding an independent candidate,” Ram told nepalpress.com. “Now he has been killed. Authorities must take action against the culprits.”
