Police have so far arrested 29 individuals in connection with the incident.

Protesters demand to scrap of the alleged ‘falsified’ postmortem report.

Protesters accuse doctors of caving under political pressure and vandalise Jajarkot hospital.

A relative of the Malla family accused of orchestrating the killings, and another unidentified individual have been arrested based on call data, said police.

The deceased along with his 18 friends was attacked by Soti villagers while the group was accompanying Nabaraj BK to bring home his 17-year-old girlfriend as his bride.

Karnali state legislators call for an impartial investigation into the Dalit killings and punishment for the perpetrators.

Survivors of the incident and victims’ families say locals and people’s representatives in Rukum (West) are trying to save the perpetrators of the crime by misguiding the investigation.

Search is on for another missing person, police say.

The third victim was among the 18 who had accompanied Nabaraj BK to Soti in Rukum (West). The deceased Nabaraj was killed in his pursuit of a girl whose family deemed him ‘untouchable’

A Dalit man went to marry a girl from ‘upper-caste’ but her family and villagers chased them into the river.

It’s been almost three years since local governments were formed but Junichande residents say they haven’t felt the impact of local governance yet.

Although the government has been running the Safe Motherhood Programme as part of its bid to ensure safe births in remote areas, only a few people are getting benefits from the programme.

Despite the roads being only partially built, the federal government had not allocated any budget to the road projects in the current fiscal year.

Acute shortage of human resource in every department has led to a lull in the productive spending of the development budget.

Genuine and sensitive issues are being ignored because most local units equate development with roads.