 In 1997, she was arrested, disappeared for a month, and repeatedly raped in police custody for four months.In 1999, she served as a military commander in Dolakha, Sindhupalchok, Okhaldhunga, and Solu Khumbu, eventually becoming district secretary of Dolakha in 2002.Khadka has served as a Maoist MP for Dolakha since the conclusion of the civil war and establishment of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly in 2008.