Kathmandu, January 3
Police have arrested a suspect in the case of rape and murder of Nirmala Pant of Kanchanpur. Police have recently arrested a missing person from the village since the body of 13-year-old Kishori Pant was found in Ukhubari of Nimbukheda, Bhimdatta Municipality-18 on 11 Shrawan 2075.
A joint team of District Police Office, Kanchanpur, State Police Office, Far Western Regional
Crime Investigation Team (RIT) and Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) arrested the youth from India and took samples for DNA testing, a senior police source told Online News.
”After Nirmala’s rape and murder, an Indian national was missing from Kanchanpur. We have been searching for her for a long time,” a senior official of the state police office told to the news. ”We have brought him for questioning”
According to him, while investigating the Pant case from a new vein, he was brought to Nepal during the interrogation of the remaining suspects who have yet to be ‘verified’. ”As soon as we come to Nepal, we have sent it to the Central Forensic Laboratory for DNA testing,” he said, ”although no report has been received.”
He has given a negative statement in the preliminary interrogation. According to the officer involved in the investigation, various people had given statements at that time saying that he was teasing Nirmala. On the same basis, the police were searching by making ‘sketches’ of some people including Ali.
An official involved in the investigation of the case said, ”During interrogation of various women in the area where the incident took place, they said that the person who was Ali’s bully was teasing and abusing women, so we thought that they should also be investigated.”
SP Umaprasad Chaturvedi of the District Police Office, Kanchanpur said that the investigation is being carried out as per the current routine. ”We have not found any evidence that the incident has been resolved,” Chartuvedi told Online News.
He said no arrests have been made so far.
By Karuna Thapa
