Incident Reports

Murder accused in-laws arrested

2015-07-07

Bagmati, Bhaktapur, Changunarayan

Police arrested a man and his wife who were accused of murdering their daughter-in-law in accomplice with their son. Metropolitan Police Circle, Bhaktapur arrested them for an investigation into the death of their daughter-in-law Sabita Kafle of Jhaukhel ward no 5 of Changunarayan municipality. Police have also arrested another family member Ranjit Khatiwada who was also named in the complaint lodged. Sabita's maternal side had lodged a complaint against all the members of her family alleging them of murdering her. Based on the complaint police had arrested her husband Suresh Neupane. Following the funeral of the victim, police have arrested three more persons of her family including her in-laws. Sangita Khatiwada, who was also named in the complaint is at large.


Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Murder/attempted Murder
Weapons None
Primary Cause Domestic violence
Actor 1 - Number of people 3
Actor 1 - Affiliations Family/relative
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people 1
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Family/relative
Actor 2 - Youth na
Total Killed 1
Female Killed 1
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