Shrestha's suspected body brought to Kathmandu for DNA testing
The body believed to be of slain businessman Ram Hari Shrestha has been
brought to Kathmandu for DNA verification.
Police said the body had been brought to Kathmandu yesterday night from
Bharatpur Hospital in Chitwan where it was sent for post mortem after
recovering from the Trishuli River at Jugedi in Chitwan district yesterday
following information received from a local woman.
The body, which is said to be swollen having immersed in water for days
and face damaged beyond recognition, has been kept at Tribhuvan University
Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj where the family members of deceased
Shrestha is expected to visit to identify the body.
However, the Shrestha's family members have maintained that they wouldn't
receive the body without DNA test verification and that they would
continue their protest.
Yesterday, Maoist People's Liberation Army (PLA) commander Govinda Bahadur
Batala, the prime accused in Shrestha murder case, had said the body was
indeed of Shrestha given the clothes and body nature.
Shrestha's wife Ramila Shrestha, mother and other relatives have been
continuing with their hunger strike wearing white funeral attires
demanding that Maoist chairman Prachanda sign on an 8-point demand paper
prepared by the struggle committee formed to press to investigate into
Shrestha's murder.
The businessman from Koteshwor had reportedly died on the way to hospital
after receiving severe beating at the hands of Maoist PLA men in the
Chitwan located Shaktikhor cantonment. They had charged Shrestha of
stealing Rs 1.7 million from the apartment he had rented to the Maoists.
Meanwhile, issuing a press release Maoist constituent assembly member from
Rameccahp Tara Narayan Shrestha denied media reports that he was slapped
by Chhalimaya Shrestha, mother of later Ram Hari Shrestha when he asked
Shrestha family not to stage a hunger strike, and accusation that he was
there as part of the Maoists conspiracy to quell the agitation
He also refuted reports that he was there as part of the Maoist conspiracy
to quell the agitation.
Deceased Ram Hari Shrestha also originally hailed from Ramechhap district. nepalnews.com ag May 26 08
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