BAJURA, NOVEMBER 28
Eight days after the murder, final rites of Chetan Ayadi of Bajura's Tribeni Municipality were carried out today. After Ayadi's kin received his body, they kept it in the open ground at the district headquarters Martadi for a few hours for locals to pay their last respects before cremation.
Earlier, Ayadi's kin had refused to receive the body until persons involved in his murder were arrested. Today, they accepted the body after the police administration informed of its search for the accused.
Chetan's kin have filed an FIR against 22 people, identifying their hand in the murder. Of them, police have arrested two and initi-ated investigation. Earlier, the deceased's kin had refusing to receive the body until the mastermind behind the murder was arrested.
Demanding an investigation and action against the guilty, CPN-UML has also been agitating since November 21 in Bajura. A resident of Ward No 7 of Tribeni Municipality, Ayadi was fatally beaten at his own home over a poll-related dispute at Nateshwori Preliminary School of Tribeni Municipality on election day.
Seriously injured, Ayadi was rushed to Bayalpata Hospital of Achham, but was declared dead on arrival. The body was then brought to the district hospital of Bajura for post-mortem, and the dead body had been there ever since.
UML standing committee member Karna Bahadur Thapa pledged to continue phase-wise agitation until the murderers were arrested.
"His body has been cremated, but our peaceful agitation will continue until the murderers are arrested," he said.
On November 20, a dispute had erupted after Nepali Congress cadre Sanjiv Ayadi died in police firing when NC cadres attempted to capture poll both. Following the cadre's death, other angry NC cadres had reached the houses of UML cadres, including Chetan Ayadi, and beaten them.
The body of Sanjiv Ayadi was cremated earlier on Friday.
As learnt, the district administration has written to the home ministry for compensation to the families of both the deceased.
A version of this article appears in the print on November 29, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
