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REPUBLICA
(Updated with details)
KATHMANDU, June 24: Police have recovered the head believed to of slain Khyati Shrestha from Raniban, near Balaju, area in the capital. The police investigation team also recovered some Rs 350,000 of the total 1 million ransom paid by family to get her released from the apartment of 16-year old Merina Shakya, who was arrested as an accomplice of the main accused Biren Shrestha (Pradhan).
According to Superintendent of Police Nawa Raj Silwal, chief of Metropolitan Police Range Office, Kathmandu, the head is found almost in a decomposed state with a long hair on it. The head was recovered at 4 am Wednesday. The main accused Shrestha himself had helped police to trace the head.
On Sunday, police found a human torso believed to be Khyati´s in a stream at Sainbu, Lalitpur, as per details furnished by main accused Shrestha. The hands and legs, now believed to be of slain Khyati, were recovered in Kabilas, Chitwan on June 13.
Family members said an unidentified girl, now identified as Merina, had called Khyati in the afternoon of on June 5 saying that she won Rs 20,000 in cash and a free trip to Pokhara through a random selection of VOW (Voice of Woman) Magazine. The girl had asked Khyati to come to Putalisadak to collect the prize.
Her parents then asked a youth who also lived in the house to drop her to Putalisadak on a motorcycle. The woman then took her to the rented apartment of the main accused Shrestha´s apartment in Khusibu in a taxi from Share Market Complex, Putalisadak.
It was only known in the evening that Khyati was kidnapped after her father received a text message that said Khyati had been kidnapped.
A permanent resident of Biratnagar, Khyati had lived with her parents at the house of the arrested Shrestha some two years ago. She was a Grade XII student of Jubilant College and Research Center at Kalimati.
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