Anjana Maharjan, a kin of the deceased girl, last week filed a complaint with the police about the missing girl.
Following the complaint, Metropolitan Police Crime Division (MPCD) with the assistance of Janasewa Police began investigation about the girl.
Within three days of the investigation, a squad of MPCD arrested Karki from his residence at Beltar-3 of Udayapur district.
Sapana Paudel, a 20-year-old bar dancer in the capital, who had gone missing from Naradevi-18 of Kathmandu about fifty days ago, had been living together since the last few months with Karki.
But as she became pregnant, Karki was forced to marry her against his will.
According to DSP Uma Chaturbedi, who has been investigating the case, the illicit relationship between them seems to be the main cause of the death. Accused Karki has confessed to killing the girl.
“I was sure that my mother wouldn´t accept her and, on other hand, she was not in good health condition. So I had no option left other than killing her," Karki told the police during preliminary investigations.
According to the police, the couple shared two rooms on the same floor with Karki´s his Dipendra Basnet. Basnet has claimed that he was unaware about the murder of the girl.
The police say that Karki killed his wife on May 17 at about 9:30 pm. Karki has told the police that he alone killed his wife and buried her under a heap of garbage 50 meters away from their home.
The dead body was found in a jute sack wrapped in a rain coat and was beyond recognition. After the incident, he even worked in the same restaurant for about two weeks and went home on the pretext of making citizenship card, the police said.
The police traced him through his mobile call records and arrested from his home. According to DSP Chaturbedi, Karki first denied the charge but later confessed to the crime.
The police said that Karki had already been in police detention before on a public offense charge.
“We are yet to investigate if anybody else was involved in the murder,” SSP Bijaya Lal Kayastha, chief of the MPCD said.
Related story
Desperate search for missing girls as nearly 80 dead in Texas f...
