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 KATHMANDU: An eleventh grader, who was banished from her house in Achham following her period, was found dead on Sunday night. 
 
 The deceased has been identified as Gauri Budha (22), a permanent resident of Bhairavsthan at Turmakhand Rural Municipality-3 in the district. The place was declared ‘Chhaupadi free zone’ some two years ago. 
 
 The victim’s family went into the hut where Budha was kept as she did not wake up till late in the morning. She was a high school student at a local Kalikeshwori Higher Secondary School. 
 
 “She worked whole day in a farm on Sunday and seemed normal. She had no complains of any uneasiness,” informed her father-in-law Dambar Bahadur Budha. 
 
 Budha’s husband works in the Nepal Police and the family has been waiting for his arrival to perform her last rites. 
 
 Chhaupadi was criminalised in the country under the Civil Code on August 9, 2017. Women, however, continue to fall prey to this superstitious practice. 
 
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 Jan 8, 2018-A 22-year-old woman who was banished to a hut nearby her house in Achham following the monthly period was found dead last night. 
 
 She is Gauri Budha, spouse of Birendra Budha of Bhairavsthan of Turmakhand Rural Municipality-3. 
 
 Her family went into the hut to check her as she did not wake up until late in the morning. She was the 11th grader at the local Kalikeshwori Higher Secondary School. 
 
 "She worked whole day in a farm on Sunday and seemed normal. She had no complains of any uneasiness," said her father-in-law Dambar Bahadur Budha. Her husband is with the Nepal Police and the family is waiting for his arrival to perform the last rites. 
 
 Though, the practice of Chhaupadi (a custom that sends women to isolation during the monthly period) is banned by law in Nepal, women continue to fall prey to this deeply rooted ill tradition. 
 
 It may be noted that the Women and Children Office, with the support of the Save the Children, declared Bhairabsthan chhaupadi-free zone two years ago. 
 
 Last year, Dambara Upadhyay of Timalsena and Roshani Tiruwa of Gajra had been found dead in the menstruation huts in this district in the far-western Nepal. 
 
 Chhaupadi was illegal in Nepal since 2005 while it was criminalsed in the Civil Code earlier this year. RSS 
 
 Published: 08-01-2018 20:46 ||||| A 23-year-old woman in Nepal was on Tuesday found dead at an isolated hut where she was left alone as part of a long-banned ancient Hindu practice that banishes women from the home during menstruation, a media report said.Many communities in Nepal view menstruating women as impure and in some remote areas they are forced to sleep in a hut away from home during their periods, a custom known as "Chhaupadi".Police said that Gauri Bayak (Budha) was found dead by her neighbours inside the Chhaupadi hut (menstruation hut) yesterday at Turmakhad Rural Municipality-3 in Achham district, The Kathmandu Post reported."The cause of her death will be known after post-mortem," Deputy Superintendent of Police Dadhiram Neupane said.Villagers suspect that Gauri might have died of smoke suffocation from the fire she had lit to keep herself warm inside the hut."Gauri had lit a fire inside the hut. She might have died in her sleep due to smoke inhalation," said Ujir Bayak, a villager.The government in August last year declared the practice as a criminal offence and introduced a law that stipulated a three-month jail sentence and/or Rs 3,000 fine against those convicted of "Chhaupadi" crime. Despite the law and campaigns, the tradition is stillrampant in some remote parts of the country.Last year, a 21-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl had died in similar circumstances.
– A 22-year-old woman was found dead this week in Nepal after being sent to a so-called menstruation hut by her family to wait out her period, the Kathmandu Post reports. Gauri Budha's family found her body after going to the hut to check on her. Her father-in-law says she had spent Sunday working on a farm "and seemed normal." He says "she had no complaints of any uneasiness." According to News18, the cause of death is not yet known, but villagers speculate Budha, a student, may have died from smoke inhalation after starting a fire in the menstruation hut to keep warm. The practice of Chhaupadi, in which women are sent into isolation during menstruation, has been illegal in Nepal since 2005, and the Himalayan Times reports it was made a criminal offense in August. The district where Budha lived was declared a "Chhaupadi-free zone" two years ago. However, the practice still persists. Two other women from Budha's district were found dead in menstruation huts last year. (An 18-year-old Nepali woman banished during her period last July died from a snake bite.)