DAMAULI, JANUARY 16

Family members of six people who had lost their lives in a road accident at Dharampani on Friday night received the bodies today.

Victims' families received the bodies after jeep owner agreed to provide compensation as per the law of the land in a meeting among victims' families, police, and the jeep owner.

DSP Yubaraj Khadka said that the families had accepted and received all six bodies. A sum of Rs 50,000 each was provided from insurance for funeral expense. The Jeep owner will pay the remaining Rs 4.5 lakh to the families of all the six deceased accident victims later.

Social activist Siddhant Garja Magar said that victims' families had agreed to receive the bodies after an agreement was inked to provide Rs 50,000 today and Rs 4.5 lakh 25 days later.

Police said all the six bodies were handed over to their families after post-mortem. Police had nabbed driver Lila Bahadur Gurung and owner Anand Bahadur Gurung.

Six people were killed after the jeep met with an accident at Bandipur on Friday. Of the eight injured, two have returned home while six are being treated at Bharatpur Teaching Hospital, Chitwan.

A version of this article appears in the print on January 17, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.