Police have arrested 59 years old Pancha Ram Harijan on June 8 on charge of attempting to kill 45 years old wife Kaptara Harijan of Janaki Rural Municipality-3 by using an axe.

Police said that the accused had attacked his wife with an axe in a normal family dispute. They were in a dispute from the last 15/16 days. She is undergoing treatment at Nepalgunj Teaching Hospital.

He was arrested based on a complaint lodged by the victim’s party according to SI Rajan Singh

Smriti Devkota