KATHMANDU: Agitating locals have enforced shutdown in Bhimduttanagar Bazaar today, protesting police's failure to reveal facts behind the murder of 13-year-old Nirmala Panta of Kanchanpur’s Bhimdatta Municipality. Organising a press conference on Monday, the District Police Office had made public a 41-year-old man as Nirmala's murderer. According to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Gyan Bahadur Sethi at the District Police Office, locals have shut down the market area stating that police were not being able to make public the true murderer(s). They are not convinced by the findings of police citing that Bista was mentally unsound, the DSP added. The agitators including various civil society organisations and human rights defenders have been picketing the District Administration Office and staging rally on the street mounting pressure on the police to reveal the facts behind the heinous crime. Police have further extended the investigation, DSP Sethi informed. Meanwhile, it had been learnt that police have fired rounds of teargas shells to contain the agitated mob. Nirmala was found dead in a sugarcane field on July 27, a day after she had gone to her friend’s home to get a notebook. READ ALSO:

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