KATHMANDU, Aug 24: Five people were injured after police opened fire on demonstrators in Kanchanpur district on Friday afternoon. According to police a condition of a protestor among those injured is said to be critical.
Kanchapur locals have been demonstrating for the last four days demanding arrest of the culprit involved in the raping and killing of Nirmala Panta, a 13-year-old girl of Bhimdatta municipality-2, Kanchanpur.
The irate locals had called an indefinite strike on last Tuesday. The indefinite strike has brought the life in Kanchanpur to a grinding halt.
Updated: 8 hurt as police open fire on protesters in Kanchanpur
Kanchanpur Police arrested 41-year-old Dilip Singh Bista, a local of Bhimdatta Municipality-19, in connection with the Nirmala rape case after 24 days of the incident.
Nonetheless, locals do not believe Bista’s involvement in the case as he is mentally retarded and have accused the police administration of arresting him to simply dispel the agitation of the protesters.
A 13-year-old Nirmala Panta had been ruthlessly raped and killed while she was returning home from her friend's house at Bhimdatta municipality-2, Kanchanpur on July 26.
Nirmala's body was found dumped in a sugarcane field the following day.
