The Bhairavnath Battalion is an Army Battalion in the Royal Nepalese Army as the elite special forces unit of the Royal Nepalese Army. The battalion was trained by the Israeli Special Forces, IDF to fulfil a need to establish a special forces wing to modernise the army. The battalion was involved in special surgical operations against the "then" Maoist terrorist, for which its methods came under heavy criticism regarding human rights, due to its lack of proper logistics and intelligence, and brutal methods of information extraction and interrogation.