The Indians encroached on no-man´s-land and worked the fields on the Nepali side at Ruatelibichawa VDC-9. They began ploughing the land between border pillars no. 28 and 29 at Jhilmila. [break]
“They are working the field to cultivate sugarcane,” Jhilmila police in-charge Girinath Yogi said.
A government team led by Chief District officer (CDO) Buddhi Bahadur Khadka has gone to the spot to observe if Nepali land has been encroached upon.
The Indian peasants have encroached upon 200 meters on the Nepali side of the pillars. “The encroachment continues every year and the administration has become a mere spectator,” said Mane Rokaya of Jhilmila. There is a Nepali police post some 2 km from pillar no. 29.
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