21-year-old Mukesh Buda Chettri aka Aashish of Nepalgunj Sub-metropolis-10 has been arrested on the charge of murder of his 19-year-old wife, Swastika Limbu. The relatives had reported a case of murder, in what was disguised as a suicide, at the District Police Office. The couple had married five months back. 

Mukesh had testified before the police that he had seen the body of his wife hanging from the ceiling but the body was found lying in the bed when the police reached the spot. The relatives of the victim have reported to the police that Mukesh was as a drug addict and that he had a history of beating his wife up.