Kanchanpur, Aug 23
Protests over the rape and murder of a teenager in Bhimdutta Nagar, Kanchanpur in far-west Nepal reached its fourth day on Thursday as the local administration clamped an indefinite curfew in the city.
The demonstrations started on Monday, a day after district police presented a ‘mentally retarded’ man as the chief suspect in the Nirmala Panta Murder Case.
Locals have been demonstrating in various areas of the town such as Bhansi, Suda, Lalpur, Sisaiya, Daiji, Champhapur among others demanding that the police arrest the murderers of 13-year-old Nirmala Panta. She was found in a sugarcane farm on July 26.
Demonstrators have been burning tyres in the major thoroughfares of the town. Locals markets and schools have been shut due to the demonstrations while the transportation services have been obstructed.
Security personnel have been mobilised in large numbers to avert the untoward incidents, according to the District Police Office, Kanchanpur. Meanwhile, security has been beefed up in the town as demonstrations growing intense with each passing days, said Senior Superintendent of Police Bikram Chand. A team led by SSP Chand has been mandated to look into the murder case.
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