The Area Police Office in Lamki of Kailali district arrested a 60-year-old man on the charge of raping and murdering his 10-year-old daughter.
According to the preliminary investigation by police, the man – a permanent resident of Lamkichuha Municipality-8 — had raped his daughter in a buffalo shed on June 10.
Fearing that his heinous crime would be out in the open, he killed his daughter by hanging her in the same buffalo shed the same day.
The man and his family had later tried to portray that the minor child had committed suicide.
According to Kailali Police Spokesperson Pratik Bista, the family was preparing to cremate the child when police arrested the man.
Upon receiving a tip off regarding the girl’s suspicious death, a police team from Lamki had reached the cremation site and sent the body of the deceased for autopsy.
Bista said that the father was arrested after the autopsy result gave them enough reason to suspect the minor’s cause of death.
The autopsy conducted at Seti Provincial Hospital revealed that the girl had been raped before being killed, said Bista. Police arrested the father on June 13 as the main suspect in the case.
“Our investigation revealed that the father had tried to hide the incident by portraying it as a suicide case,” said Bista.
Listed below are the rape cases filed with the police in the past week:
On June 10, Bhojpur Police arrested a 35-year-old man on the charge of repeatedly raping his 15-year-old daughter in his own house for the past one year.
The same day, Rupandehi Police arrested Chhetra Bahadur Thapa, 26, on the charge of raping a 38-year-old woman. Police also arrested Santosh Rana, 21, for attempting to rape the same woman.
Similarly, Rupesh Tharu, 19, of Balapur in Rupandehi district was arrested on June 10 on the charge of raping a 27-year-old woman.
In Gulmi, police arrested a 45-year-old man grandfather on June 10 on the charge of sodomizing his four-year-old grandson when no one was at home.
Kanchanpur Police arrested Dhan Bahadur BK, 23, of Odakhali in Bedkot Municipality-6 on the charge of raping a 19-year-old girl at a local nursery on June 11. Another accused in the case, 24-year-old Sippu Khuna is on the run and search for him is ongoing, police said.
Likewise, police arrested Anush Majhi, 23, of Ramechhap from Dhapakhel of Lalitpur on June 12 on the charge of raping a 24-year-old woman.
Similarly, Kanchanpur police arrested Dhan Bahadur Gurung, 53, of Krishnapur Municipality-4 on June 13 on the charge of raping an 11-year-old girl.
Palpa Police arrested Narayan Malla, 35, of Rampur Municipality-1, Muskot on June 14 on the charge of raping a 60-year-old woman.
Police arrested Singh Bahadur Tamang, 60, of Talakhu Khatrigaun in Shivpuri Gaonpalika-1, Nuwakot on Tuesday morning (June 15) on the charge of sexually abusing a seven-year-old girl.
On June 16, police arrested 20-year-old Indian national Mohammad Azharuddin, currently living in Ratuwamai Minicipality of Morang district, on the charges of raping a seven-year-old girl and another four-year-old girl.
Investigation into all the cases is underway, police said.
