Tension at India-Nepal border is not sighing relief. The Nepal Police has allegedly fired at three Indians in Bihar’s Kishanganj area. The injured Indian policemen have been shifted to the hospital. The investigation of the firing is currently underway.
Many such incidents have come to light recently. Last month an Indian national was killed and two others were injured after Nepal Police opened fire at them. India and Nepal have been locked in a bitter border dispute ever since Kathmandu raised objection to New Delhi inaugurating a link road connecting the Lipulekh pass the border with China in Uttarakhand with Dharchula.
This is the second such incident to have been reported from the India-Nepal border in recent times. Last month, the Nepal Armed Police Force, responsible for border security, had opened fire on a group during a clash at a border point near Sitamarhi in Bihar, killing one Indian and injuring two others.
Senior police officers of Nepal and Bihar and the Sashastra Seema Bal had, however, stuck to calling it a local incident, and maintained that it had nothing to do with the border row between Delhi and Kathmandu over territorial claims to Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura in Uttarakhand.
