(Updated) A woman was found dead in a hotel room on Sunday night, police in Narayangadh of Chitwan district reported. The deceased has been identified as 27-year-old Rita Bhujel, a permanent resident of Managalpur, Bharatpur Sub-Metropolitan City-16, according to police. Bhujel was found dead in a room of local Kalash Hotel, Narayangadh. The body was covered with a blanket when the police checked the room at around 10 pm. It has been learned that she was staying in the hotel with a man, who the police have suspected to have murdered the woman and fled the scene.

Update ............ Murder accused arrested from Dhading A person accused of murdering a woman three days ago at Kalash Hotel in Narayangadh was arrested on Tuesday. The District Police Office, Chitwan arrested Hem Bahadur Thapa, 26, of Gumdi VDC – 9 of Dhading. He was arrested in Dhading and brought to Chitwan, police said. Thapa is accused of murdering Rita Bhujel, 27, from Mangalpur of Bharatpur Sub Metropolis – 16 at the hotel. Police claim that Thapa murdered Bhujel at the hotel before fleeing. The accused has confessed to mixing rat poison in Bhujel's meal at first and strangling her to death with a shawl after she started to quiver in pain, police claim.