(updated) Police on Friday recovered the body of an unidentified woman, suspected to have been ditched after a murder, from Muhan Pokhari, Nagarkot-11 of Bhaktapur. Police had reached the site after locals of the area informed police that they noticed a hand of the body buried, the Bhaktapur-based Metropolitan Police Range spokesperson DSP Krishna Prasain told the Rastriya Samachar Samiti. The woman who appears to be in her early 20s in not identified yet. Further investigation is underway. नगरकोट नगरपालिका–११ मुहान पोखरीमा पुरेको अवस्थामा एक युवतीको शव भेटिएको छ। अन्दाजी २० वर्षकी पहिचान खुल्न नसकेकी युवतीको पुरेको शवको हात देखेपछि स्थानीयवासीले प्रहरीलाई खबर गरेको महानगरीय प्रहरी परिसर भक्तपुरका प्रवक्ता एवम् प्रहरी नायब उपरीक्षक कृष्ण प्रसार्इंले जानकारी दिए। अपराध अनुसन्धान महाशाखाको टोलीले विशेष अनुसन्धान सुरु गरेको जानकारी दिँदै उनले युवतीको हत्या गरी शव त्यस स्थानमा ल्याएर फालेको हुन सक्ने बताए। रासस update......................................... Police on Thursday revealed that a youth from Bhaktapur district murdered his girlfriend after collecting a hefty ransom from the latter’s employer by mobilising her. Prakash Lamichhane (28) from Bagishwari of Bhaktapur is accused of murdering Radhika Shrestha (25) from Dharke of Dhading on February 16. The woman’s decayed body was found on March 3. Organising a press conference in Kathmandu today, the Metropolitan Crime Division revealed its findings on the gruesome murder. Police found that Lamichhane had murdered Shrestha to avoid possible revelation of a successful abduction they had jointly carried out of the woman’s employer, Shyam Sundar Agrawal. The owner of the New Dollies’ Sari and the Sari Sansar in Makhkhan Galli, KMC-25 was abducted on February 15 by the couple and forced to pay a ransom of Rs 1.07 million on the next day. Executing Lamichhane’s plan, Shrestha had called her boss to the Sundhara-based Bharat Hotel Holyland on February 15. They couple, assisted by two others–Kishor Giri (24) and Saroj Ghorasaine (27) from Bageshwori–took the abductee to the neighbouring Sunshine Hotel before they forced him to pay the ransom, police said. After accomplishing the plot on February 16, the four persons took two taxis and gathered at Lamichhene’s house. Meanwhile, Giri and Ghorasaine received Rs 200,000 each for their assistance. During the gathering, Lamichhane suspected that Shrestha could leak the plot, and consequently took her life by strangling, Giri told police during the investigation. Then, the trio wrapped the body in a plastic bag, took it to Muhanpokhari and buried it underground. Locals had noticed the body after 15 days. Giri and Ghorasaine have been arrested whereas the mastermind Lamichhane is still on the run.