Accused of Killing Minor Arrested

  April 19, 2024 By: INSEC

Police arrested a 48-year-old man of Kanchan Rural Municipality-5 on 18 April for the charge of killing his 17-year-old daughter.

DSP Manohar Prasad Bhatta of the District Police Office informed that the accused took the victim girl to Malika Hotel and Lodge in Butwal Sub-metropolitan city-9 and killed her with an iron rod on April 16.  Subsequently, the 43-year-old mother of the deceased filed a complaint against the accused at the district police office on April 18.

It is reported that the victim died on the spot due to severe head injury and excessive bleeding.

DSP Bhatta added that the accused was absconding after the incident and was arrested on April 18 while he was hiding in Kanchan Rural Municipality-4.

The body has been kept at Lumbini Provincial Hospital for post-mortem.


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