Four days after Menuka Khatri’s murder, police have implicated her estranged husband and a fellow soldier.
Menuka (25) of Thumi-7 was found with her head severed in the forested area of Balaju Park near her rented room, where she lived with her six-year old son Aayush.
SP Kedar Rijal, Kathmandu police chief said they had found solid evidences that Bharat Khatri (Menuka’s husband) and his friend Sangharsha Gaunle Khatri of Mauwa- 7, Panchthar had murdered her.
Bharat (26) and Sangharsha (24), soldiers of Nepali Army Cavalry Battalion in Singha Durbar, have confessed to the crime.
Bharat told investigators that he had murdered her ‘to relieve himself of the financial burden of maintaining two wives’. Menuka was his first wife, and his second wife lives in his home district.
“We had a rift over her adulterous relationship with several men. She was also a domineering woman who pressurised me to provide half my salary to her. All these led me to finish her off,” an excerpt of his recorded statement read. It has been revealed that Bharat paid Sangharsha Rs 19,500 for the murder.
DSP Dibesh Lohani said Bharat had ganged up with Sangharsha to plot the murder. “But the police brought them to justice with the help of mobile phone call details and further investigations,” he informed.
According to DSP Lohani, the estranged husband telephoned Menuka and called her out of the room ‘to collect some goods sent from abroad’ in the evening, sweet-talked her into going to a nearby forest and killed her at around 8:00 pm.
“Sangharsha hit Menuka with a hammer on the head from behind and when she collapsed, Bharat held her feet tightly while Sangharsha severed her throat with a cleaver,” said the investigation report.
Sangharsha had brought the weapons, which they later dumped into the Bishnumati River in Balaju. Police have not yet recovered the weapons.
Menuka (25) of Thumi-7 was found with her head severed in the forested area of Balaju Park near her rented room, where she lived with her six-year old son Aayush.
SP Kedar Rijal, Kathmandu police chief said they had found solid evidences that Bharat Khatri (Menuka’s husband) and his friend Sangharsha Gaunle Khatri of Mauwa- 7, Panchthar had murdered her.
Bharat (26) and Sangharsha (24), soldiers of Nepali Army Cavalry Battalion in Singha Durbar, have confessed to the crime.
Bharat told investigators that he had murdered her ‘to relieve himself of the financial burden of maintaining two wives’. Menuka was his first wife, and his second wife lives in his home district.
“We had a rift over her adulterous relationship with several men. She was also a domineering woman who pressurised me to provide half my salary to her. All these led me to finish her off,” an excerpt of his recorded statement read. It has been revealed that Bharat paid Sangharsha Rs 19,500 for the murder.
DSP Dibesh Lohani said Bharat had ganged up with Sangharsha to plot the murder. “But the police brought them to justice with the help of mobile phone call details and further investigations,” he informed.
According to DSP Lohani, the estranged husband telephoned Menuka and called her out of the room ‘to collect some goods sent from abroad’ in the evening, sweet-talked her into going to a nearby forest and killed her at around 8:00 pm.
“Sangharsha hit Menuka with a hammer on the head from behind and when she collapsed, Bharat held her feet tightly while Sangharsha severed her throat with a cleaver,” said the investigation report.
Sangharsha had brought the weapons, which they later dumped into the Bishnumati River in Balaju. Police have not yet recovered the weapons.
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