DHANGADI, AUGUST 2

It has been revealed that Manju Rawal of Kailali's Lamkichuha Municipality, who was murdered, was subjected to rape before the murder.

Police, citing investigation, said the contract killers had called Manju, who was a resident of Bhalka in Lamkichuha Municipality to Gauriganga Municipality with the assurance that they would help settle a case she was linked to. As learnt, contract killers Jamansingh Rawal, 27, and Krishna BK of Achham's Panchadewal Binayak Municipality had sexually abused her before killing her.

As established earlier, Goma Rawal, who was Manju's husband's first wife and was a resident of Bhalka, had got the contract killers to murder Manju, 33, after the former failed to grab a land plot registered in Manju's name following their husband's death. Goma, who had made the plan while living in India, was arrested by police in the course of their investigation some one-and-a-half months after the murder incident took place.

While the contract killers Krishna and Jamansingh are at large, police have also arrested Goma's relatives on the basis of the record of her contact details. Having left her home on June 8 to meet a lawyer, Manju had gone unaccounted for. Police started a search after her son reported his mother's missing status on June 16. Her body was found cut in pieces on July 30 from Mohanyal.

A version of this article appears in the print on August 3, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.