These 2 poor families don’t have 2 meals a day, but they’re facing a Rs 210m tax evasion case

Around 18 kilometres southwest of Biratnagar, the capital of Province 1, is Dhanpalthan rural municipality . The rural municipality is home to the Musahar community, most members of whom make ends meet by working in the fields of others.

As they are from a marginalised community, the majority of them live in two-room houses built by the government. That is where we found Ram Dhari Rishidev and Lakhan Rishidev.