KARNALI, OCTOBER 30

Intensive investigation is taking place regarding the incident in which four members of a single family were found dead in Chhayanath Rara municipality-6, Mandu village.

According to Mugu Police Chief, Deputy Superintendent of Police Birendra Thapa, the incident is suspected to have occurred on Wednesday night.

Acting on a tip off from the locals, police had found dead 28-year-old Shreedevi Bohora, her 11-year-old son Manoj, eight-year-old daughter Apsara and eight-month-old son Rahar Bohora on October 27 two days after the incident reportedly occurred.

Police took all the four bodies to Mugu Hospital for post-mortem on Saturday immediately Deepak Bohora, husband of deceased Shreedevi, who was in Qatar for employment returned home.

But, the post-mortem has not been carried out so far as Deepak refused to receive the bodies till the murderers of his wife, sons and daughters were identified.

Immediately after the incident, a special investigation team of District Police Office, Mugu, headed by DSP Birendra Thapa focused its field-based investigation in an intensive manner.

Likewise, a special investigation bureau team with trained dog from Karnali Province Police Office Surkhet has also intensified investigation suspecting that it was not an incident of death but of mass murder.

Likewise, a special investigation team has also reached the incident site in Mugu to support the investigation into the incident.

Spokesperson of Province Police Office, SSP Gopal Chandra Bhattarai informed that Chief of Karnali Province Police Office Surkhet, Deputy Inspector General of Police Bhim Prasad Dhakal has been to the incident site to intensify the investigation.

“Investigation into the incident has been intensified. All possible measures have been put in place to identify the guilty in the incident. We will soon establish the identity of the guilty”, he shared. However, police have not ascertained concrete evidences in the course of their efforts to establish the truth behind the incident.

A version of this article appears in the print on October 31, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.