At that time, incidents of civilians killing police officers or the state firing on civilians were considered a very big issue. Citizens were afraid if the police were seen in the countryside, even in plain clothes. Not only were they afraid, but the citizens also had a kind of trust and confidence in the police.

But on Magh 18, 2052, the incident of an attack by ordinary people on plainclothes police in Kubinde village of Sindhupalchowk became a national issue. Many residents of Kubinde have not forgotten the incident of an encounter between ordinary people and the police.

Former Kubinde Village Development Committee Secretary Krishna Prasad Sapkota had filed a complaint with the District Police Office that he was attacked by a masked group. The complaint stated that the attack took place on Magh 2, 2052. The complaint also stated that a teacher from the school was also involved in the masked group. Based on the complaint, the police went to Seti Devi Panchakanya Secondary School in Kubinde to arrest the teacher. A plainclothes police team led by Assistant Inspector of Police (AIP) Nil Bahadur KC went to the school premises.

The police had questioned the school administration about the teacher. The school administration had informed that the teacher was not in the school. While returning with this information, the police caught the teacher while he was running away. The school students and local parents retaliated by saying that the teacher had been taken into custody. Three police teams had left the teacher and fled. The police had fled without confronting the locals as they came with weapons. Two of them reached Chautara, the district headquarters, safely while fleeing, while one went missing.

Police constable Som Bahadur Sunar was attacked by locals. Eyewitnesses said that they were chased towards the Jalbire river with stones. His watch, jacket, and shoes were found on the way where the police constable was chased. According to locals, women and school students chased and beat police constable Sunar to the bank of the river.

After receiving information about the attack on the police, a police team led by Police Inspector Keshav Bahadur Ranabhat went to the scene from the district headquarters Chautara. Northeast of Kubindegaun, in Naubise, former Phulpingkot VDC, was the house of Agni Prasad Sapkota, leader of the United Janamorcha Nepal (Bhattarai Group). The police went to search for the attackers on suspicion that they were hiding in that house. But after the locals retaliated, the police left the two arrested people behind. Police constable Sunar was not in contact.

The team led by Ranabhat raided Agni Prasad's house. In the process, stones were pelted on the police to release the arrested people. When local women tried to release the arrested people by pelting stones on the police, another clash broke out. In the process, the police fired in the air at around 7.30 am on the 19th. The then Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of the District Police Office, Surat Bahadur Shah, had informed that the police had fired in the air in self-defense. At that time, members of Agni Prasad's family were injured by the police's batons. Women were also injured. A dozen policemen, including Inspector Ranabhat and Jawan Resham Giri, were injured by their stone pelting.

After the incident, many men in Kubinde had left their homes. The village had become deserted. The incident was in the news across the country after policeman Sunar, who had gone missing from the village, which was considered to be under the control of the then Janamorcha, went missing. The then Chief District Officer, Ramkrishna Bhurtel, had said that Kubinde village was peaceful and a search was underway for the attacker. Before the Kubinde incident, Yagya Prasad Dangal, a teacher at Shree Krishna Ratnaganga Secondary School, was attacked with a khukuri. An unknown person attacked the rebels with a khukuri in the forest while they were going to their home in Melchaur from the district headquarters. The local administration was suspicious of the incident. At that time, the local administration was suspicious that preparations for a 'guerrilla war' had been received in the western part of the country, including Rolpa and Rukum. Guns were recovered from the forests of the western district, and incidents of attacks on locals by unknown persons had been made public.