DHANGADI, FEBRUARY 14
Nepali Congress central leader Ramesh Lekhak deployed as the party's central representative to observe and study the incident site where Bhagirathi Bhatta was raped and subsequently murdered reached the incident site at Chadepani of Dogdakedar Rural Municipality, in Baitadi.
Lekhak, who is also a former minister, has been given the responsibility to study the incident site and submit a report to the party.
Lekhak's personal secretary Janak Bhatta said Lekhak had made a field observation of the incident site, met the victim's family members and held discussion with local people's representatives and police personnel in relation to the gruesome rape and murder case. Earlier, Lekhak had met Nepali Congress Baitadi District Committee members.
Following the gruesome rape and murder of Bhagirathi, party leaders and cadres have been meeting the victim's family members.
Bhatta was found murdered in Lablek Community Forest on February 4. Police, however, are yet to book the perpetrators. Family members and relatives have refused to receive the body until the guilty are booked. Reportedly, Baitadi District Hospital is facing a hard time preserving the body at the hospital.
A police team led by Sudurpaschim Province Police Office DIG Uttamraj Pant is leading the investigation into the incident. Separate police teams from District Police Office and Central Bureau of Investigation have been probing the incident.
Various organisations, student unions and locals have been staging street protest demanding justice for Bhatta.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 14, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
