Dalli´s blood relatives claim that she was murdered by her in-laws. [break]
Police started investigating into the status of the 28-year-old woman on May 31, three days after Dalli´s elder brother Sobiram lodged a complaint. Police later found blood marks, hair, clippers and clothes at Brahmadev-4 and sent samples to Kathmandu for lab tests. The tests will take three months to produce results.
“It took a week for the samples to reach Kathmandu,” said Police Inspector Khadga Singh Bhandari. “It will take three months to ascertain whether she was killed or is missing,” he added.
Dalli´s blood relatives have lodged a complaint claiming that seven people of Brahmadev-4 are responsible for hiding Dalli´s dead body. Police have detained Dalli´s husband Kanar Ram Lohar and father-in-law Kukure Lohar, apart from Karbir Karki, Gaganram Lohar, Dhanjit Lohar and Lato Lohar.
But the main accused, Jay Singh Karki, who is alleged to have maintained illicit relations with Dalli, is at large.
Dalli´s parents live in an Indian village bordering Nepal. They shifted to the village seeing better opportunities there to work for daily wages.
Her husband works in Malaysia. Villagers say Dalli was in a relationship with Jay Singh Karki. After word spread about this, Karki gave Dalli´s in-laws Rs 40,000 to hush things up, after which the issue was settled. But Dalli´s husband returned from Malaysia and refused to accept Dalli as his wife.
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