Itahari, November 24:

Widow of a man killed due to Maoist excesses today regretted that the government neither took any action against the offenders nor did it provide her with any compensation.

Alina, whose husband Dhruba Raj Satyal, a Kathmandu resident, was killed by the Maoists around two years ago, said her repeated pleas for justice had fallen on deaf ears.

“Some seven armed party cadres mercile-ssly beat up and tortured my husband on August 15, 2006,” Alina recalled. Dhruba, the proprietor of Himal Transportation, who got mentally disturbed by the torture, died in the course of treatment at Tribhuvan Univer-sity Teaching Hospital in January 2007.

“It saddens us to see the government’s inaction in arresting the criminals at a time when the country has seen a new tide of political change,” Alina regretted.

Dhruba was known among friends and family as a simple person, who made every business venture a success.