Kathmandu, Yuwati ko ghati retera hatya gareko arop ma yubak pakrau. THT ONLINE Police have also confiscated a 12-inch knife used in the crime and Maharjan's clothes stained with Sherpa's blood. KATHMANDU: Police have arrested a man on charge of murdering his girlfriend on Thursday. The suspect Ramesh Maharjan (41) was arrested from Dallu on Friday morning by a police team deployed from Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range, Hanumandhoka. According to police, Maharjan had slit the throat of his 25-year-old girlfriend Pema Chheki Sherpa with a sharp weapon at around 5:10 am yesterday in KMC-15. Sherpa, who was found seriously injured, was taken to Bir Hospital for treatment. However, she succumbed to her injuries an hour after she was attacked. Sherpa, who hails from Ramechhap district, is a temporary resident of Swyambhu, Kathmandu. Maharjan is a permanent resident of Lagantole-12, Kathmandu. Preliminary investigation revealed that Maharjan plotted Sherpa's murder as the latter had been insisting for marriage. As Maharjan could not deny, he hatched the conspiracy and called Sherpa to meet him for a date early in the morning, and made off after slitting her throat. Both Maharjan and deceased Sherpa are the employees of a jewelry factory in Bijeshwori, said SSP Uttam Bahadur Karki, In-charge of the MPR, Hanumandhoka. Police have also confiscated a 12-inch knife used in the crime and Maharjan's clothes stained with Sherpa's blood. Investigation is underway, police said.