The body of a 23-year-old woman who had gone missing from her house on June 25 was found inside the Ghamile forest of Bhandara People on Sunday evening.
The site where the body was found is around three kilometers from her house in People Pragatipur of Rapti Municipality Ward No. 3.
On the day she went missing, the victim had called her sister, Kabita Bhandari.
“I missed her call. When I called her back, she told me she had been kidnapped,” said Bhandari. “I immediately informed the District Police Office in Chitwan about the phone call from my sister. But the police did not work seriously. They did not conduct a thorough search.”
According to the District Police Office in Chitwan, the body was found by some local residents in a decaying stage.
“The deceased was identified by the family members by her clothes. We will have to wait for the postmortem report to understand the circumstances of her death,” said the Superintendent of Police in Chitwan Om Adhikari.
“Police have begun their investigation based on the family’s information that the victim was kidnapped and kept in a car,” said Deputy Superintendent of Police Surya Thapa, who is also the information officer at the District Police Office. According to investigators, the victim’s cell phone was located near Kumaroj tower, south of her house.
