Police on Saturday arrested friend of teenager Nirmala Panta whose house she had visited before she was raped and murdered, and the friend’s sister for investigation.
DSP Gyan Bahadur Seti told Setopati that Nirmala’s friend Roshani Bam and her elder sister Anita Bam have been arrested from their home.
The body of 13-year-old Panta of Bhimdutta municipality 2, who had gone to Bam’s home for study on July 26, was found at a sugarcane field the next day.
The police last Saturday arrested Dilip Singh Bista, 41, of Bhimdutta-19 and produced him before the Kanchanpur District Court on Monday as the main accused. But the locals have been claiming that Bista is not the real culprit and the police are presenting him as one to save the real culprits.
Nirmala's father Ek Raj has claimed that the police put pressure on him to file a complaint identifying Bista as the main accused.
One boy has been killed in police firing and dozens have been injured in clashes with police as the locals have been protesting for the past few days accusing the police of trying to save the real culprits.
