Kathmandu, July 28 -- In October 2021, 14 people, including 11 women, arrived in Kathmandu from Nepalgunj, covering over 500 kilometres on foot in the quest for justice for two women-victims of murder and disappearances. They had to march to Kathmandu after the local administration paid no attention to their protest.

After 12 days of sit-ins and a hunger strike, the government had agreed to investigate the murder of Nakunni Dhobi and Nirmala Kurmi, who disappeared mysteriously in 2010. Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba was the prime minister then.

Badshah Kurmi, a Congress leader and Provincial Assembly member in Lumbini, is the prime accused in Nirmala's disappearance and capture of her property. Ignoring the agreement his p...