In rural municipality-5, Shivji Yadav, president of the rural municipality, and Dilip Yadav, former ward president, have been arrested for demolishing Dalit Deepak Malik's house with a dozer in the name of Mahayagya. President Yadav, who has been out of touch since Thursday after the news of the incident was published, reached the district administration office with his entourage on Friday. From there, both people were taken into custody and kept in the district police office.

Bajrangi Baba, the organizer of demolishing the houses of Dalit families as untouchables, has not been arrested. 

Madhesh Police Chief DIG Lalmani Acharya says that initial statements have been taken from both the arrested and further investigation will be done after receiving a complaint from the victim's family on Saturday. 

Malik's house was near Mandpan which was being built for the Maha Yajna which was to be held from Chait 17. The house of the Dalit family, which has been living there for 30 years, was built 5 years ago under the Janata Awas program. 

On the request of the organizer Bajrangi Baba, village chairman Yadav, on the initiative of former ward president Yadav, ran a dozer at Malik's house on February 10, saying that the settlement and movement of Dalits in the vicinity would defile the Maha Yajna. He not only destroyed the house, he also threw away the soil where the house was, saying that it would be untouchable. After the news about the

incident is published, there is a demand for action against the culprits. Members of the House of Representatives of the Union and MPs of the Madhesh State Assembly objected to the incident and held a parliamentary inquiry on the accused in Thursday's meeting. They demanded action. Various organizations have also condemned the incident and demanded that action should be taken against those who committed atrocities on Dalits.  The police had been running away on the pretext that the victim's family had not filed a complaint. But they were arrested only on Friday after the government and the police-administration were widely criticized. 

Dalit families are unable to come out and file a complaint due to the threat and surveillance of the perpetrators. "The perpetrators are keeping a close eye on the victims, what the victims are doing, who they are meeting, everything is being monitored," says a local, "but the police has become a silent spectator." 

organizer Bajrangi Baba, rural municipality president Yadav and former ward president Yadav reached the victim Malik's hut on Thursday and threatened and forcibly handed over the document, in which it is mentioned that he had willingly demolished his house. They even threatened not to say anything more and said it would not be right. They went to Deepak's hut on Thursday morning after the news about the incident was published and forced the documents, but then they became 'uncontactable'. 

Deepak's family was taken to the government building next to the Maha Yagya site after being threatened and forced to submit papers. Village chairman Yadav, Bajrangi Baba and former ward president Yadav also made them speak in a video saying that they had moved there willingly.

After the arrest of two people, including village chairman Yadav, the victim's family has demanded that they be restored to their old place by building a house for them.

'We are weak people, we are afraid of cutting this finger, we are afraid of cutting that finger, so we could not do anything,' Deepak Malik said to Kantipur, 'Now we would have been returned to our old place.' Where there is no water facility, no electricity. Deepak and his wife Anita Malik work as sanitation workers in the rural municipality. They have not even been able to go to work since the incident became public. Chief District Officer Vasudev Dahal, who was criticized for not acting sensitively in the incident, was recalled by the Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday. Home has also instructed the police to investigate the incident.

National Human Rights Commission Madhesh Province Office has shown interest in the incident of atrocities on Dalit families in Aurhi. Budhnarayan Sahni, the provincial head of the Commission, said that monitoring and investigation have been started. "A team has reached the spot to monitor and investigate the incident," he said, "a letter has been sent to the district administration, district police office and other rural municipalities to inform them about the incident." "We have asked Siraha police chief and chief district officer to investigate the truth about the incident," says Sundar Purkuti, a member of the Dalit Commission.