Chitwan, July 21 -- Dan Bahadur Praja Chepang, a resident at a squatter settlement in Kusumkhola in Madi, was on his way back home from Kirtanpur around 5 in the evening on Saturday. As he approached the settlement, he saw around 20 people riding on seven elephants enter the settlement, which was an unusual sight for him. "As I got closer I saw houses on fire. They had torched my house and my uncle's and vandalised other houses too," said the 20-year-old Dan Bahadur.

Dan Bahadur claims the people who torched and vandalised his settlement are employees of Chitwan National Park.

The park employees reached the Kusumkhola settlement of the landless people on Saturday and asked the 10 squatter households to evict the area within a week, acco...