A man has been arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend by assaulting her with a stone in a fit of rage in Kathmandu. A police team deployed from the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, detained Bijay Tamang of Tukedar for his alleged involvement in the murder of his girlfriend at squatter’s settlement in Basundhara of the Capital on Sunday night. They had been living together for the past few months in Basundhara. Police identified the deceased as Purnima BK while her permanent address is yet to be established. According to a preliminary investigation, Tamang attacked his girlfriend with the stone after she refused to go to his room. Before the incident, the duo, who used to eke out their living as a daily wage workers, had consumed alcohol at a local tavern. Police said that Tamang has already confessed to the crime. During the interrogation, Tamang said that his girlfriend had been living outside for the past one week which escalated a dispute between them. Police have arrested eight persons for their alleged involvement in the murder till Monday morning. काठमाडौंको बसुन्धारास्थित भित्री सडकमा युवाले गरेको बलात्कार प्रयासको प्रतिरोध गर्दा एक युवतीको ज्यान गएको छ । टोखा नगरपालिका–७ बसुन्धारा स्थित पुरानो सुकुम्बासी टोलमा गत राती साँढे ९ बजे टाउकोमा गम्भिर चोट लागेको अवस्थामा एक युवतीको शव फेला परेको महानगरीय प्रहरी परिसर काठमाडौंका प्रमुख एसएसपी विश्वराज पोखरेलले जानकारी दिएका छन् । ‘युवतीमाथि बलात्कार प्रयास भएको देखिन्छ’ एसएसपी पोखरेलले भने, ‘युवतीको नाम ठेगाना पहिचान हुन सकेको छैन, अनुसन्धान भइरहेको छ ।’ गत राती साँढे ९ बजे स्थानियले खबर गरेपछी प्रहरी घट्नास्थल पुगेको थियो । टाउकोबाट रगतको भल नै बगेको अवस्थामा प्रहरीले युवतीलाई फेला पारेको थियो । युवतीको शरीरको तल्लो भागको कपडा घुँडासम्म खोलिएको अवस्थामा फेला परेको हुनाले उनीमाथि बलात्कार प्रयास भएको हुनसक्ने बताइएको छ । बलात्कार प्रयास प्रतिरोध गर्दा ढुंगा प्रहार गर्ने युवाको पहिचान नजिक पुगेको एसएसपी पोखरेलले बताएका छन् । मृतक युवतीको शव पोष्टमार्टमा लागी त्रिवी शिक्षण अस्पताल महाराजगञ्जमा लगिएको छ ।