Shrestha murdered by own pal

Bhaktapur: A 33-year-old youth has been thrashed to death by his own closet pal and a labourer in Bhaktapur.

A preliminary investigation of the police has revealed that Rajan Shrestha originally from Suryabinayak municipality-1 and currently residing in Suryabinayak -3 in Bhaktapur succumbed to the injuries from the attack.

Metropolitan Police Range, Bhaktapur’s SP Shiva Shrestha shared that police rescued Shrestha from Hanumante Riverbank at around 10 pm on Tuesday.

Police arrested 32-year-old Hemanta Shrestha, Shrestha’s closest pal, and a labourer Prem BK and remanded them in custody for further investigation.

SP Shrestha shared that the alleged two-beat Shrestha and attacked with a wooden log just to be burdened off from the loan borrowed from Shrestha. The alleged culprits invited Shrestha at Gatthaghar to return him money.

They later took him to a deserted place and began to beat him to death.

Local labourers informed the police following which injured Shrestha was rushed to the hospital but he breathed his last on the way to the hospital.

DSP Narahari Regmi at the Metropolitan Police Circle, Thimi said that the preliminary investigation showed that the alleged ones had planned to murder Shrestha and disappear his dead body.