Kathmandu, October 27:

Police has brought along with them all the three children of Ram Prasad Panta as there is no one to look after them at home because all the senior members of the family have been taken into police on the charge of murdering Devi Panta.

Ram Prasad, his second wife, two brothers, father and mother are in police custody since October 23 for murdering his first wife Devi.

“We have brought with us Bishal, 10, Dibya, 8, and Smriti, 6, as there is nobody to look after them because every member of the family has been arrested for murdering Devi Panta,” DSP Kanchan Thapa at the Balaju Metropolitan Police Circle, said.

According to him, the children will remain with their guardian until anyone comes to take them.

All senior members of the Ram Prasad family was allegedly involved in strangulating Devi to death at their residence at Ichangu Narayan VDC-9, Kathmandu.

“Devi was admitted to Manamohan Memorial Hospital, Sorakhutte and the family members had told the doctors that she had fallen from the stairs in the house, but the post-mortem report revealed something else,” Thapa said. All those held were brought to the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, yesterday for legal proceedings.