Sunsari’s Bhokraha Narsingh Rural Municipality-8, Ulti Tol resident, Dhan Raj Sah, 21, and Bhokraha Narsingh Rural Municipality-6 resident, Laxmi Kumari Yadav, 20 got married on July 3, 2025 in an inter-caste marriage. After this, November 18 police arrested Bhokraha Narsingh Rural Municipality–6, Ulti Tol resident Upendra Yadav on the charge of tying Dhanraj’s father, Devnarayan Sah, to a pole and beating him.
On November 6, accusing him of “eloping with his daughter,” Upendra Yadav had tied Dhanraj’s father, Devnarayan Sah, to a pole in the yard and beaten him.
After the assault, based on a video that became public and a complaint registered by the victim’s side at the District Police Office on November 17, police arrested Upendra Yadav.
Saying that they were forced to leave the village due to their inter-caste marriage, on November 15, 21-year-old Dhanraj Shah, 21 and Laxmikumari Yadav, 20 of Bhokraha Narsingh Rural Municipality–6 held a press conference in Biratnagar.
According to the victims, they were forced to leave their home due to caste-based oppression, threats, and continuous pressure. At the press conference, they said that after their marriage, they were unable to live in the village and were compelled to hide sometimes in India and sometimes elsewhere.
The victim couple complained that because they married a boy from a “lower caste,” the girl’s family continuously threatened and pressured them, causing them to live in fear.
At the press conference, Dhanraj Shah said that the bride’s family, who refused to accept the marriage, had been threatening to kill him and his family, forcing them to leave the village.
Shah said that after they left the village, his father, Devnarayan Shah, had been tied up and beaten by his father-in-law, Upendra Yadav.
Although they married willingly after reaching the legal age, now her own family is trying to falsely implicate her husband by filing fabricated cases, said Laxmi Yadav. Yadav said that her maternal family refuses to accept her husband as a son-in-law and has been pressuring her to leave her husband and return home. The couple said that they have already registered their marriage at the ward office of the rural municipality.
Laxmi added that because she does not yet have citizenship, her family is portraying her as a “minor” in an attempt to frame her husband as a criminal, filing complaints at various offices in a planned manner.
The victim couple urged all concerned authorities to ensure the protection of their human rights, guarantee their safety, and allow them to return to the village and live freely without fear.
A couple from Bhokraha Narsingh Rural Municipality, Sunsari, has complained that they have been displaced from their village because of their inter-caste marriage.