Nepal, May 12 -- based discrimination is so entrenched in Nepal, even the country's legal system fails to see it as a crime. Recently, in the infamous Soti lynchings-in which Nabaraj BK and his five friends were killed by a mob on May 23, 2020 over BK's affair with an 'upper caste' girl-the High Court in Surkhet upheld life imprisonment handed down by the Rukum District Court to 23 people involved in the murder. But it overturned the convictions for caste-based discrimination.

The Post's Aarati Baral sat down with Kunjani Pariyar Pyasi, a human rights lawyer and Dalit rights activist who played a vital role in ensuring justice for the victims in the Soti case, to discuss the case, the discriminations the Dalit community grapples with, as...