Kathmandu, July 24 -- Nepal Chepang Sangh, an organisation representing the indigenous Chepang community, has demanded an inquiry into the recent incident of enforced eviction of Chepang families from their settlement in Chitwan district.

On July 18, a group of people had torched and vandalised at least 10 huts in a Chepang settlement built in Kusum Khola, Madi. The displaced families have claimed that their homes were destroyed by the employees of Chitwan National Park.

On Thursday, representatives of the Nepal Chepang Sangh in Bagmati Province and the Chitwan working committee of the Sangh submitted a memorandum of appeal to Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, chief district officer of Chitwan, demanding investigation into the incident and lega...