Bardiya-Laxmi Gurung was beaten so brutally by Maoists on suspicion of being an informer that she had to get her left arm amputated. Her helpless mother fainted while watching her daughter getting hammered mercilessly by the Maoist activists. "These vicious people were hitting and punching her endlessly," says her tearful mother, Dhankumari Gurung. Laxmi returned to her Jhaptiphat village after her operation at Bheri Zonal Hospital, thinking that they would leave her alone. She was wrong. They still beat her and kept her under strict vigilance in her own house. Already emotionally stressed after the recent death of her husband, Laxmi's trauma was so unbearable that she decided to take a huge risk by fleeing the village, preferring to live a refugee's life in Gulariya, the district headquarters. Later on she heard that the Maoists had abducted both her brother and his wife. After their release, the brother died but Laximi doesn't know how.

The Maoists had blamed the family for helping the security forces to find two of their cadres, Dipak and Magaru Tharu who were later killed after their arrest.