After more than two years of the incident, Chitwan District Court of Province No 3 on June 13 convicted two cadres of the then Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre (CPN-Maoist Center) Drona Bahadur Shiwakoti and Madhu Neupane for tearing up ballot papers during the election in Bharatpur Metropolis in 2017, reports Republica. Shiwakoti and Neupane were convicted for tearing up some of the ballots during vote counting in Ward 19. The vote counting was then halted and re-election held in the ward.