location: Bachhauli
notes: Nine police personnel and five Maoists, including UCPN (Maoist) district in-charge Anil Sharma, were injured in a clash that ensued when police intervened in a land dispute in Bachhauli VDC . The Maoists say that the land in question-measuring 6 kattha (0.2 hectares)-is public property, while Nepali Congress (NC) Bachhauli Village Committee Chairman Kedar Prasad Chapagain maintains that Jangilal Shrestha, an NC activist, is the land owner. Police intervened when Maoist cadre gathered to publicly declared the disputed plot a Martyrs' Memorial Park. Maoist cadres threw stones when police removed Maoist party flags from the land. Police baton-charged and also hurled stones at the Maoists.
target_text: location: Bachhauli, fatalities: 0