Umesh Shrestha is the founder of independent blog MySansar and an editor of Nepal Fact Check, a platform that investigates the content of Nepali media for false or misleading information. According to the journalist, on 22 February 2022 he was summoned and threatened with arrest by officers from Nepal Police's Cyber Bureau after publishing a report on the dissemination of ‘fake news’ regarding the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Nepal Compact fund.

The attack came few days after journalist Saroj Basnet suffered injuries while covering a protest over MCC.