The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the decision of Kailali District Court and Dipayal High Court to sentence Resham Chaudhary, who was found guilty in the Tikapur incident, to life imprisonment. Hearing the case today, a division bench of Justices Ananda Mohan Bhattarai and Nahakul Subedi concluded that he should be imprisoned for life in the Tikapur incident.. Earlier, the Kailali District Court had convicted Chaudhary in the Tikapur incident and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

The defendants of the same incident Sita Ram Chaudhary and Ganga Ram Chaudhary, however, have been acquitted.

Similarly, the decision of the Kailali District Court has been upheld in the case of another defendant, Laxman Chaudhary. The Kailali District Court had sentenced him to three years in prison. The Kailai District Court in 2019 handed down a life sentence to 11 people including Chaudhary in connection with the 2015 Tikapur incident in which nine people were killed in a violent clash.