Family members and relatives of 46-year-old Jhupe Sunar of Taranga
VDC-5 have been forced to move out of the village after Sunar’s son
married a nonDalit girl.
Sunar’s son, Khadak Bahadur, had married a nonDalit teenager — Jaisara
Baduwal — of the village on June 30.
They moved to the district headquarters Birendranagar for security
reasons after the Baduaal family threatened them with dire
consequencies.
“We had no option but to move to Birendranagar after my son married a
nonDalit teenager,” he said.
“We are taking shelter in the open. We need security,” Jhupe said.
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Date: Jul 10, 2008 / National Page: 05