A man, who was on the run after murdering a 21-year-old Sumana Shrestha in cold blood in Dharan Sub Metropolitan City, has been arrested in Dhankuta.
The arrested has confessed to murdering the girl, claiming that she cheated him romantically.
A squad of police tracked the suspect down based on the call records and messages on the mobile phone of Sumana and arrested him from Dhankua, police sources told Nepalkhabar.
“A police team tracked down the suspect based on call records and messages on the mobile phone of the victim and apprehended him from Dhankuta. The suspect has confessed to murdering the girl for allegedly cheating him romantically,” police sources said.
The arrested will be made public by organizing a press conference in Dharan tomorrow, said police.
Police had been investigating the case after the parents of the deceased lodged an FIR at the police station. Police had arrested a total of seven suspects in the course of investigation and released them due to lack of evidence.
Sumana, 21, a resident of Dharan-16, was found with her throat slit in a secluded place between BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences and Depot Secondary School in Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City-18 on Wednesday afternoon.
Around 2:30 pm on Wednesday, a woman saw the dead body of the girl while grazing her goats. The police reached the spot after the dead body was found lying in a ditch on the side of the road. The police said that a khukuri was also found a few meters away from the body.
Sumana was studying in grade 12 in a college in Dharan.
