According to police, Om had confessed to strangling his wife and disposing of her body in the Kali Gandaki River during their course of interrogation. [break]
Sonu had gone missing since December 19 and her body was found inside a sack floating on the Kali Gandaki River on 19 January.
The recorded video of Om admitting to the crime was made public during a press meet in Tansen on Friday. The video clearly stated Om saying, "I strangled Sonu at home in the evening, put the body in a sack, drove it down to Parewaghat on my motorbike and finally threw it in the Kail Gandaki River." He even admitted to putting stones weighing around 25 kg in the sack to make sure that the sack sinks in the river.
During the press meet, police also displayed the confiscated torch tight, rope, sack, and the motorcycle used by Om to carry the body.
Sonu´s relatives had filed a complaint with police categorically accusing Om for her disappearance. Following the complaint and after the body was recovered, police had arrested Om and his first wife Krishna Devi Shrestha on suspicion of their involvement in the murder.
Superintendent of Police Manoj Neupane of the Regional Police Office informed that their investigation regarding the involvement of other assailants in the murder is still in progress. "Our investigation has not ended. We need to find out whether Om committed the crime single-handedly or others too were involved," said Neupane. "We have been interrogating Krishna Devi as well," added Neupane.
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