Birgunj, July 1 : Police have arrested three persons with the dead body of an adolescent girl in Parsa. A squad of police personnel caught the three while cremating the adolescent on the Dhoni rivulet bank at Bahudarmai municipality-7.
The arrestees are an 18-year-old
adolescent girl, Asha Devi, 40, and Urmila Devi, 50. All of the are the local
residents of the municipality.
It may be noted that a 14-year-old
adolescent girl of Bahudarmai-7 died after consuming poison on Wednesday.
Acting on a tip-off about the secret
handling of cremation without informing the police administration, the police
took them under control with the dead body.
Police said the investigation into the
incident is going on under a murder case.
The Parsa District Court had allowed
prosecutors to put them in jail for five days to enable investigation.
They had taken the dead body to the
rivulet bank on a motorbike for cremation.
All three had run away leaving the
dead body when the police team from Area Police Office Pokhariya reached the site.
Police recovered the dead body which was put on flame, the District Police
Office said.