(Updated) A seventeen year-old girl has been murdered here in Bhanunagar of Bardaghat Municipality-8 of the district on Wednesday night. The deceased has been identified as Manisha Gharti Magar, sister of Bimal Ghartimagar, member of Nepali national football team. Manisha was staying alone in the house on Wednesday when the incident took place. According to Sambhu Lal Shrestha, deceased’s neighborhood member, police have reached the incident site and began an investigation over the incident. Manisha and her mother were living in the house. However, her mother had gone to Butwal on Wednesday. Manisha had just completed grade 11 examinations recently.

Update.... Manisha murder: Chaudhari proved innocent in polygraph test Rudra Narayan Chaudhari, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder of Manisha Gharti Magar, the sister of national football team striker Bimal Gharti Magar, “passed” a lie-detection test. Chaudhari, during the polygraph test, said that he did not kill Manisha, the District Police Office, Nawalparasi said. A team of experts deployed from the Western Regional Police Office in Pokhara had conducted the test on 22-year-old Chaudhari for five hours yesterday. The test was carried out at the Sunwal-based Lotus Resort. Update......................................... The district attorney office here has filed a case at the District Court against Ashish Chaudhari, the murder accused of Manisha, sister of national football player Bimal Ghartimagar. Chaudhari's life imprisonment is demanded in the case. Based on the circumstantial evidence, attorney Rudra Panthi filed the case charging Chaudhari of committing murder. The court will hear the objections and document the views from defendants and take decision later. RSS