Father-in-law arrested on charge of killing daughter-in-law

  May 23, 2018 By: INSEC

Police have arrested 51 years old father-in-law Prem Patel pn May 22 on charge of killing his 23 years old daughter-in-law Rinku Patel of Parsagadhi Munici[ality-4, Hardaspur.

The accused was arrested by the police from his house and investigation of the incident is initiated according to the SP Rewati Dhakal of District Police Office of Parsa. Another accused Bupendar Patel, 25 is at large and search for him is going on according to the police. The absconding accused Bhupendra is the victim’s husband. Police said that the postmortem of the body has been conducted at district hospital on May 21.

Police had recovered the dead body from the victim’s house on May 20. He father-in-law however is claiming that she committed suicide however the victim’s family is accusing him of killing.

The victim’s family has alleged that she was killed over a dowry dispute according to DSP Man Bahadur Rai of DPO.


KC Lamichhane