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Kathmandu Thursday May 17, 2001 Jestha 04, 2058.
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Locals
obstruct highway over woman’s death
BHAIRAHAWA, May 16 (PR) - The Butwal-Bhairahawa
section of the Siddhartha Highway was obstructed for two hours toward noon yesterday
following a wrangle between the police and the local people that arose from the death of a
woman at Shankarnagar in mysterious circumstances.
A local was also seriously wounded in the police
lathi charge. According to police, a person at Shankarnagar-3 had informed them over phone
of the suicide of his 23-year-old daughter-in-law, Parbati Kharel, early Tuesday morning
at her own room.
The Butwal police arrived at the site
immediately afterwards and opened her room in the presence of the Ward Chairman. However,
the local people who had arrived at the site suspected a made-up story behind what they
believed a murder by family members. They were more agitated when the police took out the
dead body from backdoors, without letting in the people.
The enraged crowd chanted slogans against the
police and the mother-in-law of the deceased, demanding a ‘people’s action’
against them.
A locally-imposed chakkajam at the highway
continued for two hours until the police began the lathi charge to quell the mob. Madhav
Pande, resident of the same VDC, was rushed to Kathmandu for treatment after he sustained
serious injuries in the head during the police baton charge.
According to neighbours of the deceased, Parbati
was often beaten up by her mother-in-law and tortured mentally since her marriage two
years ago. Likewise, Parbati was heard crying and wailing piteously at around 3 am, Monday
night. The police are investigating the case.
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