Complaint Filed Against Accused of Killing

  May 25, 2024 By: INSEC

A complaint was registered against 34-year-old Gautam Kumar Shrestha of Tirahut Rural Municipality-2 at the Area Police Office, Kanchanrup on 24 May accusing him of killing his 20-year-old wife Sangita Dahal Shrestha. Inspector Awadh Kishor Ojha of the Area Police Office, Kanchanrup informed that the complaint was filed by the victim’s brother Kalyan Dahal.
The victim got married to the accused on April 28, 2011. Kalyan stated that their married life was harmonious initially, however, later the accused started quarreling on small pretexts, verbally abusing and beating the victim under the influence of alcohol and giving her physical and mental torture .
Sangita’s body was found hanging in her house on May 7, 2020, and the post-mortem was done on the same day at Gajendra Narayan Singh Hospital Rajbiraj. Kalyan, her brother, claims that Sangita was killed and her body was staged to look like a suicide.

Manohar Kumar Pokharel