Combatant Ujjawal Lama sustained serious head injury, and another combatant Sandarva had his leg fractured during the scuffle. Both of them were undergoing treatment at Kohalpur Teaching Hospital.[break]
According to sources, lower ranked combatants protested since Sunday afternoon after brigade commanders loaded a truck with goods and logistics. Sources said a group led by brigade commander attacked the combatants as they obstructed vehicular movement in the area until Sunday evening.
"Some of the combatants who had been blocking the road until 9 pm were tied up to trees and brutally beaten up," informed a combatant at the brigade. "Also, other combatants who protested the attack were chased away and beaten up."
The local authorities deployed security personnel but did not intervene as the security forces are not allowed into cantonments without permission.
The combatants have been demanding that logistics and goods in the cantonments should be distributed among all the combatants because all of them contributed money to buy them.
According to sources, the four tractors were registered in the names of battalion commanders Bikram Chaudhary and Ganga Mahatara. The combatants stopped Mahatara while he was taking away one of the tractors on Sunday. In addition, there are 35 motorcycles, 22 laptops and 40 desktop computers at the division headquarters and four other cantonments.
However, another division vice commander Nar Bahadur Pun claimed that the scuffle took place while some combatants expressed their dissatisfaction over the integration procedures and not about sharing the properties.
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