The girl has been identified as Bhenisha Limbu, originally from Dhankuta and currently residing in Kapan. She had gone missing since February 20. The 12th grader at Lumbini College also used to teach at a Kalopul-based school.
The family members of the deceased had filed a complaint at Bauddha-based police station four days after she went missing. Limbu's body was recovered in a half-naked state by the Bhaktapur police on Friday after being tipped off by some construction workers in Nagarkot.
"On the basis of evidences gathered so far, we have closed in on some suspects but they are still at large,"SP Kiran Bajracharya, chief of the Metropolitan Police Range Office, Bhaktapur, said.
Preliminary investigations by the police have revealed that the girl was killed elsewhere and disposed at the bamboo bushes in Nagarkot. The body was found without inner garments and has no signs of struggle before she died, the police said.
Suspecting that the girl was raped and murdered, the police have sent the body to TUTH, Maharajgunj for autopsy and the report is yet to come. The police are also yet to track the mobile phone possessed by the victim.
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