Man Bahadur Bagale, 76, and daughter Bishnu, 18, have rented two rooms in Makrahar Village Development Committee (VDC), Rupandehi. Man Bahadur´s 20-year-old son Prem, on the other hand, has been living in a rented room in Kailashnagar, Tansen to appear for the class 12 exams starting Thursday. [break]
Prem had sold off a pair of oxen, one buffalo, six she-goats, four roosters and some food grain to neighbors before leaving the village for good. Prem wanted to sell his field as well, but no one was ready to buy as the killers of his sister Tulasa, 27, her mother Yam Kumari, 55, daughter Sandhya, 8, and son Sanjeev, 5, are still at large.
“I will live with my father and sister after completion of the exams. I have come here to give exams only after everybody persuaded me to not skip exams,” Prem told myrepublica.com while cooking at his rented room. “I have not been able to concentrate on studies,” he revealed.
Bishnu´s kidneys are dysfunctional and she had not studied beyond the fifth grade after one kidney stopped functioning. She was being treated in Kathmandu. “Sister has physical and mental problems while father is old. The responsibility of the family has fallen on my shoulders. Should I read or support my family,” Prem rued.
Police have disclosed involvement of Nepal Army personnel in the murder of Tulasa and members of her family and the district court has sent soldier Tara Balami of the Naya Gorakh Battalion in Pokhara to judicial custody. But the police have not been able to identify three other culprits despite claiming that the three are also armymen.
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