A video of a woman being strangled by the city police and Nepal Police is going viral on social media. What is the background to this incident and how did this situation come about?
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A video has been going viral on social media for the past few days. After a photo and video of a woman being strangled was posted, the city police and Nepal police are being criticized for their inhumane behavior.
The video is from Duhabi Municipality-10, Simaria. The incident has become controversial after a woman was accused of misbehaving with security personnel while removing houses and huts built on public land.
The victim and locals have said that the incident that took place on the morning of April 20 was an act of violence, while the municipality and police have denied the allegations. Local Ramkumari Chaudhary, 45, says that she has been living in a hut at the site for 17 years and that the city police and Nepal police used force to drag her away while demolishing her house.
'The injuries she sustained during the arrest have not yet healed,' she told Kantipur. Serious questions have been raised on social media about the state machinery's working style, alleging that it misbehaved with ordinary citizens. Ramkumari's daughter Binam Chaudhary has also claimed that she and her mother were abused.
'I can't even remember the abuse that was done to my mother. The city police and the women police chased my mother and me, even my clothes were torn,' she said. Local Abhijit Ram, who was at the scene, accused the poor and low-income citizens of being treated inhumanely. 'It is sad that a woman should be treated like this. The state should not have done such oppression, but there is no one to speak up for the poor,' he said.
17 years ago, Ramkumari had built a hut by spending about 500,000 rupees to fill a large hole in public land. After her husband became disabled in an accident, she has been taking care of the entire family on her own. She is running a small chicken farm and raising three children. She has alleged that Duhabi Mayor Bed Bahadur Gachhadar has 1 kaththa 9 dhur of land in the middle of the numbered land near the place where her tent is located, and that her house was demolished just to make way for a road. 
But Mayor Gachhadar claims that the incident has been exaggerated and misrepresented. 'No misconduct occurred. They had built a tent by encroaching on public land.' When the city police tried to demolish the structure, they tried to go in front of the dozer and climb on top of it, so normal force was used,' said Mayor Gachhadar.
Similarly, Ward Chairman of Duhabi Municipality-10, Tularam Majhi, also claims that the incident was normal. 'There was a problem in movement as they had encroached on public land and settled there. That is why they were evacuated,' he said.
The District Police Office, Sunsari, has also stated that the photos and videos made public about the incident are 'misleadingly presented'. According to the police, a dispute broke out when some people got angry and tried to go towards the dozer while removing illegal structures built on public land.
'The female police tried to stop them to prevent a possible accident.' Sunsari police said that inhumane acts such as tying people to trees with ropes were not carried out as mentioned in the news. Even though the municipality had issued a notice to remove the structures within two days the previous day, locals have raised questions about the process, saying that the dozer was used the next day.
