Body sent for second post mortem

• Police arrest four persons

Kavre, December 10:

Relatives of a 52-year-old Bhola Kumari Acharya alias Radha of Baluwa VDC in Kavre district, who was staying in Sinamangal of Kathmandu, have alleged that she was kidnapped and murdered.

Radha’s body was found hanging from a tree in Ranipauwa village of Kakani VDC-3 in Nuwakot district last Wednesday. There was a pyjama string around her neck and she was half-slumped with both her knees touching the ground.

On Sunday’s edition (December 2) of the Annapurna Post her relatives had published a missing person and on Tuesday, Radha’s daughter Anju filed a complaint at the metropolitan police post at Bouddha saying her mother was missing and accused her mother’s brother-in-law, stepson and others of having killed her.

Later they received a telephone call informing them of her death. Radha’s relatives went to Nuwakot and ascertained her identity.

Police had detained the accused persons but released them after interrogation. Radha’s brother-in-law Chhand Prasad Acharya alias Shalik Ram, stepson Diwas Acharya and his two friends were rearrested after the body was found. They have been kept at the Bouddha metropolitan police post, said police.

Radha’s relatives alleged that Nuwakot police hurriedly got the post mortem done before she could be identified and refused to claim her body.

Her brother Madhav Prasad Humagain said, “We will claim the body only after a second post mortem.”

The deceased’s relatives also reached the Health Ministry to lodge a complaint.

Radha’s relatives and neighbours in Kavre district also staged a demonstration demanding action against her killers and blocked Araniko Highway for an hour.

Our Nuwakot correspondent reports Radha’s body was sent to Kathmandu for a second post mortem.

The Nuwakot district police office said the second post mortem was ordered after the deceased’s daughter filed a complaint at the Home Ministry alleging foul play.

DSP Dhiraj Pratap Singh said the body had been taken to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital for the second post mortem. He said that the first post mortem by the Trishuli Hospital in Nuwakot district had mentioned choking as the cause of death.

“Looking at the position of the body when it was found it did not seem to be a case of suicide,” he said.