KATHMANDU, April 2: Kali Bahadur Kham, a leader of the CPN (Maoist Center), has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murder of businessman Ram Hari Shrestha from Koteshwar two years after the then Maoist rebels signed the Comprehensive Peace Accord. He had been absconding for 15 years after the murder and was finally arrested by a team from the District Police Range, Kathmandu. A senior officer confirmed Kham’s arrest.

JANAKPURDHAM, March 21: A young man has been killed by strangulation in Dhanusha. According to the police, 18-year-old Kaif Nadaf, a local, was killed by his friend in a mango orchard located in Janaknandani Rural Municipality-2.

MORANG, March 17: Police suspect that a staff nurse working at the Nobel Teaching Hospital in Biratnagar was murdered by her lover.

KAPILVASTU, Feb 24: The decapitated head of a young man, who was killed and buried in Pipri Village of Kapilvastu Municipality-4, has been found six days after the recovery of the body.

KATHMANDU, Feb 21: In a tragic incident, a man killed his wife and two children before taking his own life in the Sitapaila area of Kathmandu on Wednesday.

DANG, Feb 4: A policeman killed his wife and two and a half year old son in Dang. Pimlal Nepali, a police constable working at the District Police Office, Dang, killed his wife Tika BK, and his two-and-a-half-year-old son Sushant.

JANAKPURDHAM, Jan 30: A man has been arrested in Dhanusha on the charge that he was on the run after poisoning his aunt. The arrested person is 54-year-old Mohan Sah Kanu of Ward No. 6 of Kamala Municipality.

Washington, DC [US], Jan 14: The 20-year-old man who killed 10 Black people in a live-streamed supermarket rampage in New York State, will face the death penalty from federal prosecutors in the United States, Al Jazeera reported. Payton Gendron entered a guilty plea to state charges of murder and hate-motivated domestic terrorism in the 2022 attack in Buffalo, and he is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

KATHMANDU, Dec 21: The police have arrested two people on the charge of murdering Narayani Timilsina, aka Apsara, six years ago.

KATHMANDU, Dec 18: The police have arrested a man who returned to Nepal after allegedly murdering a co-worker in Malaysia.

UDAYAPUR, Dec 7: The son of a woman arrested for allegedly murdering her husband, a few days ago, has also been taken into custody.

SURINGA (JHAPA), Nov 27: A man here has allegedly murdered his father by attacking him with a weapon.

BARDIYA, Nov 18: Police have arrested eight people on the charge of their involvement in a murder at Suhelawa of Gulariya municipality-5 in Bardiya.

JANAKPURDHAM, Nov 2: The family of Rupesh Saraf, who was shot dead last Monday in Kalaiya in Bara, has complained that the police lied about the case of slain Rupesh.

LAS VEGAS, Nov 2: The former street gang leader charged with orchestrating the 1996 drive-by killing of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas is expected to plead not guilty Thursday to murder, amid questions of whether he’ll hire a defense lawyer or a judge appoints a public defender.

JANAKPURDHAM, Oct 31: The police have arrested six people including a woman and started investigation into the murder of Rupesh Saraf, the owner and principal of Bal Ekta English Boarding School located in Kalaiya-6, Bara.

JALESHWOR, Oct 27: A man was allegedly murdered by two of his friends over a dispute relating to a metal chain worth Rs 50, said the police. The incident took place three days ago at Hardiya of Pipara Rural Municipality in Mahottari district.

RUKUM WEST, Oct 18: Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of a woman who was found dead at Satkar Hotel in Musikot Municipality-1, Khalanga, Rukum West.

JANAKPURDHAM, Oct 2: In a tragic turn of events, a 23-year-old woman, identified as Sonam Sahani Singh from Suklahiya, Darpa Thana-1, Motihari district, India, has been apprehended by Bara police in connection with the murder of her husband, Ajit Kumar Singh.

KATHMANDU, Sept 18: The accused individual, Sanjay Bhandari from Sindhupalchok Barhabise Municipality, allegedly involved in the tragic murder of four individuals in Gairigaun, Tinkune, Kathmandu on Friday night, was arrested, with the police disclosing his identity on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: Four people including three from the same family were found murdered at Gairigaon, Tinkune in the Kathmandu Valley on Friday night. The bodies of four people had marks of injuries caused by sharp weapons.

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: In a shocking incident, four people, including three from the same family, were killed on Friday night in Gairigaun, Tinkune of Kathmandu Metropolitan City-32. The lifeless bodies of two men and two women were discovered within the premises of Divya Saw Mill located in Tinkune at around 11:55 PM on Friday. There were deep injuries caused by sharp weapons in different parts of their bodies.

KATHMANDU, Sept 16: The Kathmandu Valley Police Office in Ranipokhari has taken swift action by establishing a dedicated five-member investigative committee to unravel the tragic mass murder that occurred in Gairigaun, Tinkune, Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, Sept 16: In a horrifying incident last night at Gairigaun, Tinkune in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-32, four lives were brutally taken, three of whom were from the same family. The lifeless bodies of two men and two women were found within the premises of the Divya Saw Mill located in Tinkune at approximately 11:55 PM.

KATHMANDU, Sept 16: A police team, accompanied by a skilled canine, has initiated an inquiry into the tragic murder of four people that unfolded late last night in Gairigaun, Tinkune, Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, Sept 16: The identities of the four individuals who were brutally murdered in Gairigaun, Tinkune, Kathmandu, have been confirmed.

DANG, Sept 15: A drunk local killed his father on Thursday when the entire nation was observing Father’s Day.

OKHALDHUNGA, Sept 7: An elderly person has been arrested on the charge of murder in the district.

KATHMANDU, Aug 4: The survivors of the decade-long armed conflict have drawn the attention of the government and bodies concerned to the need of ensuring justice to them while amending the laws related to transitional justice (TJ).

KANCHANPUR, July 26: Five years have shot by since the Nirmala Panta rape and murder case shook the entire nation. Although an investigation committee was formed to go probe the case, they have not been able to solve the case so far. As the police fail to catch the culprit behind the rape and murder of Nirmala Panta, the case still remains a mystery even five years after the incident.

KATHMANDU, June 29: Asia Network for the Rights of Occupational and Environment Victims (ANROEV) has condemned the brutal murder of Shahidul Islam, a popular labor leader associated with the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation. Bangladesh which produces garments for top brands of the world thrives on cheap labor and often a very exploitative work environment. Shahidul Islam was beaten to death while trying to resolve a dispute.

DHANUSHA, June 14: District Police Office, Dhanusha, has arrested a man in connection with the murder of a single woman in Dhanusha, whose body was found buried in a pit.

KIMATHANKA, May 26: A 21-year-old girl was murdered this morning at Ghimiregaun in Khandbari Municipality-1, Sankhuwasabha.

JANAKPURDHAM, May 22: A man has been found murdered in mysterious circumstances in Madhapur, Hanuman Nagar Kangalini Municipality-4 in Saptari.

BANKE May 21: A complaint was made to the district police office about the murder of a young woman by a man over a rejected love proposal.

KATHMANDU, May 1: Nepal Police has sent information to the Parliament Secretariat informing the latter that CPN-UML law maker Lakshmi Mahato Koiri has been absconding.

KATHMANDU, April 30: The police have said that robbery was the motive behind the murder of Nira Pandey Acharya, a shopkeeper of Saraswati Nagar, Chabahil, Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, April 30: The police have arrested one accused allegedly involved in the murder of Nira Pandey in Kapan.

BAITADI, April 16: A youth from Kalagaon in Dogdakedar rural municipality-8 has been found murdered.

DANG, April 9: Two minor girls are found to have been killed in greed for gold. According to the District Police Office, East Rukum, two teenagers killed the two minor girls to rob them of their gold jewelry.

KATHMANDU, Feb 24: District Court, Dhanusha, has given life imprisonment to two people involved in murdering conservation activist Om Prakash Mahato (Dilip) in Sirpur, Dhanusha almost three years ago and slapped a jail term of 12.5 years for an accomplice.

The Dhanusha District Court’s verdict announced last Wednesday in the case of Om Prakash Mahato, an environment conservation activist who was brutally murdered in the district on 10 January 2020, has highlighted the risks and challenges faced by environmental activists in Nepal. The district court has found three individuals guilty of intentionally killing Mahato, but the sentencing will not be decided until February 24. Four other defendants in the case were acquitted.

JANAKPURDHAM, Feb 18: Three accused in the murder of a conservation activist Om Prakash Mahato (Dilip) which took place at Aurhi Khola in Mithila Municipality-5 Sripur of Dhanusha at 4 am on January 10, 2020 have been found guilty.

KATHMANDU, Feb 9: It has been revealed that a man who was found dead in Rudranagar near Gaushala in Kathmandu on Tuesday morning had been murdered.

KATHMANDU, Feb 7: Mahottari District Court has sentenced a person who killed a girl to life term in prison.

KATHMANDU, Feb 7: Bidhyananda Raya and his brother Shivananda Raya of Chinnamasta Rural Municipality-1, Barahi Birpur of Saptari, were sentenced to life on Monday on the charge of killing their sister-in-law. District Judge Hemanta Rawal's bench slapped a life term on them eight years after the murder. The court said that both the accused are still absconding.

SURKHET, Feb 2: Police have arrested a woman on the charge of killing her husband and hiding his body in a safety tank five years after the incident.

JANAKPURDHAM, Jan 22: Two young men who had gone for a feast from Janakpur two weeks ago have been found dead in India. Rohit Sah, 21 and Bishnu Sah, 22 of Janakpurdham Sub-metropolitan City were found dead in Sitamarhi, India.

JHAPA, Jan 11: Police have arrested a man in Arjundhara Municipality on the charge of murdering his wife.

KALIKOT, Dec 29: A signature campaign has been launched to seek justice for Niru BK, who was murdered after being raped more than a year ago.