Police have arrested Shrawan Kumar Mahato, 24, of Kharsal Tole in Rajbiraj Municipality-7 on March 18 on charges of murdering Jayakrishna Biraji aka Bhattarai, 25, who was teaching at Peace Zone Model School in Rajbiraj Municipality-2.
A police team deployed from the Area Police Office, Dharan, Sunsari arrested the accused from Dharan Sub-Metropolitan-8, Tinkune, and handed him over to the District Police Office, Saptari on March 19.
The victim’s father Upendra Prasad Yadav had lodged a complaint at the District Police Office on June 26, 2019, alleging that Biraji was beaten to death by a group of eight persons including the accused in Kharsal Tol of Rajbiraj Municipality-7 on June 24.
The accused have been identified as Subhash Yadav alias Tuntun, 40, Kamalu Yadav, 30, Shashi Dev, 27, Prem Kumar Dev, 31, Bindeshwar Yadav alias Bindu, 50, his daughter Santoshi Yadav, 25, and Pramod Yadav, 23, of Rajbiraj Municipality-7. The complaint was registered by the police on June 27.
According to eyewitnesses, Biraji, a teacher working as a hostel warden of Peace Zone Model School, was beaten by a group of local youths when he reached Kharsal Tole in Rajbiraj Municipality-7 in June 24.
Biraji, who was critically injured in the beating, was rushed to Nobel Hospital, Biratnagar on June 26 after he could not be treated at Rajbiraj-based Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital.
The postmortem of the body was conducted at Koshi Zonal Hospital in Biratnagar on June 25. The other accused have not been arrested.