Earlier, the chief district officer (CDO) of Bardiya and Warden of BNP had assured families of the killed villagers that the latter would receive crematory expenses by April 7. [break]
On Friday, Krishna Bahadur BK, whose wife Devisara and daughter Chandrakala were killed by NA personnel, went to BNP office in Thakurdwara of Bardiya to get the money. But Krishna Bahadur had to return empty-handed.
“I got nothing despite the written agreement,” he lamented.
Earlier, the local authorities had provided Rs 20,000 to the victims´ families after they refused to receive the dead bodies for ten days. The authorities had promised to provide an additional Rs 55,000 for crematory expenses.
The final rites of the three women killed in the incident have already been performed. However, the victims´ families are facing hardships after they spent all their money to perform the final rites for their dead relatives.
“We have not gone out to work since the tragedy,” Krishna Bahadur´s brother Durga Bahadur said. “We have run out of food grains. We have been surviving with the food lent by our neighbors.”
Meanwhile, the BNP administration has admitted that the killed Dalit women were not poachers. The BNP administration and the families of the victims have struck another nine-point deal.
According to the deal, the victims´ families will be provided with crematory expenses within seven days. Besides, both parties will withdraw their cases filed against each other.
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