Businessmen have accused the Sub-Metropolitan Police in Butwal of acting in a 'thug-like manner', and they claim that details of the seized goods were not even recorded.
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Butwal Sub-metropolitan Police has continued its campaign to remove and organize road encroachments on a daily basis. The municipality, which appeared aggressive on the first and second days, appeared soft on the third day, Friday.
The municipality had monitored the Hospital Line, Bhudki Chowk and Milan Chowk areas on the first day. During that, it had vandalized the goods of the businessmen doing bhudki business in Bhudki Chowk and removed the boxes and roofs of the houses. Similarly, in the Milan Chowk area, a reconditioning shop was opened on the road and the goods of the motorcycle owners were collected. On the second day, Thursday, it monitored the areas with fancy and utensils shops in Sirak Dasna and Ram Mandir Line of Amarpath.
The municipality team that went out for monitoring, including the municipal police, Nepal Police, municipal mayor Khelraj Pandey, deputy mayor Savitradevi Aryal, chief administrative officer Deepak Gyawali, and employees of the infrastructure branch, and the businessmen. The city police, who became aggressive after being accused of attacking businessmen, had even picked up the businessmen's sirak, dasna, bags, and utensils. However, on the third day, Friday, the city mayor, Khelraj Pandey, who appeared soft, said that he would be aggressive and soft as needed. 'On the second day, the businessmen attacked the city police, so we had to be a little more aggressive,' he said, 'We have not looked at anyone's face, our only objective is to make Butwal a beautiful and disciplined city for businessmen.' He said that after they refused to inform us even after giving information through information and miking, we had to become aggressive.
According to the municipality's Chief Administrative Officer, Deepak Gyawali, the municipality had issued a notice 15 days ago and directed to clear the sidewalks. Before that, a discussion and decision had been made in the executive meeting. ‘Information was given by continuous miking,’ he said, ‘but, old businessmen and reconditioning businessmen refused, so they had to go out to the market with dozers and trains.’ He said that the campaign will continue for three months and monitoring will continue even after that.
Businessmen have said that the municipality has launched an attack in a gangster and gangster style. The city police had already made arrests at Thapa Kitchen, Gaurishankar Pottery Shop, and City Bag House in Amarpath, Butwal. The city police had collected utensils from more than a dozen shops at Thapa Kitchen and Gaurishankar, bags from City Bag House, and Dunlop, Dasna, and Sirak from the Sirak Dasna shop. Vijay Rayamajhi of City Bag House said that the police had even entered the shutters and looted the materials. ‘The municipality has adopted a hooligan style,’ he said, ‘I told them to remove the items I kept in the house’s bin, but they picked them up and put them in a tipper.’ He claims that they were taken away without listening to him even after he promised not to keep them anymore. He said that he also broke more than two dozen bags from his shop and a curtain worth Rs 40,000 that was made to block the sun in the shop. Suraj Thapa of Thapa Kitchen also complained that the items kept in the bins of his house were taken away without even giving him some time.
The municipality had again monitored the bins of some houses from the bus park to the highway intersection and the east side of the intersection on Friday. Deputy Mayor Savitradevi Aryal said that compared to the previous two days, the businessmen did not have to be aggressive because they removed the items from the bins. The municipality has stated that the items that were taken away are now locked in a warehouse and that details will be collected after the monitoring is completed. Chief Administrative Officer Gyawali said that although the details of which shop was picked up were not disclosed, the amount of material picked up and its condition would be disclosed and a decision would be made after evaluating it.
