The family of Janaki Mandal, 38 from Biratnagar Sub-Metropolitan City-4, Ikrahi alleged that the police refused to register an FIR about the killing of Janaki. They claimed that the police did not register the FIR against 40-year-old Dilip Mandal of the same place for killing his wife even after they held a press conference on July 22 in Biratnagar.
Sukadev Mandal, the 71-year-old father of the deceased, stated that although they filed an FIR accusing the suspect of killing, the police registered the complaint under charges of suicide abetment instead.
Sukadev Mandal claimed that the accused, Dilip Mandal, had falsely reported that Janaki committed suicide, while in fact, she was beaten to death on June 11. After knowing that their daughter had been fatally beaten, Sukadev Mandal and his family filed a complaint against the accused at the district police office. However, the police registered a case for suicide abetment instead of addressing their complaint properly. The police then arrested the accused on 12 June after registering a complaint of suicide abetment.
Since the complaint was not under the charge of killing, the public prosecutor’s office decided not to proceed with the case against the accused under suicide abetment on June 23. Subsequently, the police released the accused.
Sukadev Mandal stated that they did not receive justice because the police did not register their complaint. He alleges that his son-in-law, the accused, attempted to marry again, and after his daughter intervened, he beat her to death.
The postmortem of the body was done at Koshi Hospital on 13 June.
