Garjman Thapa, 83, who had been missing since Saturday from Pradhiti Tole in Lalitpur, was found dead on Monday. According to Lalitpur Police Chief SSP Hobindra Bogati, Thapa's body was found inside a sack in a well near the furniture factory he regularly visited.

"After receiving the news of his disappearance, we intensified the search in possible places, we increased the interrogation of people in the places he regularly visited," he said. "In the meantime, we have taken into custody 22-year-old Shraddha Mansur, 21-year-old Yusuf Ansari, and 22-year-old Mohammad Noman, all from Motihari district, India, who work in the factory, and are investigating." According to Bogati, the police had increased the search in the surrounding area after their statements were found suspicious. During that time, the investigating officers saw a well with its lid removed about 150 meters away.

"Earlier, a body was found in a well in another incident, so when it was found suspicious, the body was found. The family identified the body as Thapa's," Bogati said. "After that, it appears that the Indian citizen killed the elderly man with the intention of robbing him of his ring." According to him, the ring contains less than one tola of gold. ‘It seems that the murder took place in the afternoon with a knife, and then at night, three people were found to have thrown the body into the well,’ said SSP Bogati. ‘They were getting ready to flee, but we were able to catch them because we started the investigation on time.’

A person was also killed in a minor dispute in Sundhara, Patan, Lalitpur last Saturday night. According to SSP Bogati, a clash broke out between two groups during a dispute over a fire at midnight. In the process, 25-year-old Vijay Rai of Sindhuli died.

‘Rai’s face is visible, there are bruises on his body,’ he said. ‘It seems that he went to his room in the evening and slept. In the morning, he was taken to the hospital in an unconscious state, where the doctors declared him dead.’ After the family filed a complaint alleging that he was murdered, the police have arrested Raju Thapa and Dipesh Dahal. According to the police, all the people involved in the dispute were wage laborers and earned their living. "We have sent the body for postmortem, the exact cause of death will be known after the report comes," Bogati added. 

Nepal Police Assistant Inspector (ASI) Pushkar Karki, 29, returned to his Sinamangal-based lodge after finishing his duty at 12 noon on 21st Mangs. His wife, who was in the police service, was at the lodge on maternity leave. After reaching the lodge, Karki went straight to his 6-month-old son and killed himself by stabbing him in the neck with a sharp weapon. Karki and his wife, who had entered the room screaming upon seeing this scene, were also beaten up.

According to SP Pawan Bhattarai of the District Police Range, Kathmandu, neighbors rescued his wife and took her to the nearby Kathmandu Medical College. Karki, however, entered the room. After a while, he ran away, switched off his mobile phone and went missing. A police team that was active in the search immediately after receiving information about the incident arrested him from Nagdhunga Check Point. The police are conducting a detailed investigation into Karki's death.

According to the officers involved in the investigation, Karki's son was treated at the Kathmandu Medical College in Sinamangal some time ago. After he suddenly fainted and was taken to the hospital, the doctors operated on him after he was found to have a blood clot in his head. But he had not recovered. The doctors had said that the problem could last for a long time. After that, there was a dispute between the husband and wife at home. 'There is no other reason to kill him, it seems that the child's issue has caused tension in the family,' said an investigating officer.

33-year-old Pemba Lama and his father 78-year-old Ambi Lama had been living in a rented room at the Maitri Vihar monastery in Swayambhu, Kathmandu-15, for a decade. His mother was alone in the village. Pemba used to go to Chumanubri rural municipality in Gorkha to visit his mother from time to time. 'I had repeatedly asked my father to go to the village because my mother was alone, but he did not agree,' he told the police.

On the evening of 23 October, this simple dispute took such a turn that father Ambi is no longer in this world, and his son has also been arrested. ‘That evening, after a fight broke out and he was fatally stabbed with a khukuri, the locals came to know about it and took his father to Manmohan Memorial Hospital, Swayambhu,’ his brother Chhewang said in his complaint against his brother to the police. ‘The hospital declared him dead at around 2:43 am on 24 October.’

After being arrested, Pemba told the police in his statement that the father and son had a drink together at home that evening and then had a fight with his father when they discussed returning to the village.

A sanitation worker from Kathmandu Metropolitan City who was going to collect garbage found a black plastic with a strange smell on the side of the road in Gongabu on 6 November. When he felt strange while putting it in the vehicle, he opened it and saw that something was wrapped in a cloth. Immediately, a team from the District Police Complex, Kathmandu and the Valley Crime Investigation Office reached there and started an investigation.

According to the investigation officers of the Kathmandu Police, the body had been lying there for at least 10 days. ‘If the garbage collector had not found out, where would it have ended up!’ An officer said, ‘It was difficult to identify the body as it had already started to decompose.’ But the ‘tag’ on the sheet used to wrap the body became an important ‘clue’ for the investigation officer. The number ‘1455’ was written on it, in the style used to write on the sheets of the Royal Kundla Hotel in Gongbu.

‘Since the cloth seemed to belong to the hotel, we started inquiring at nearby laundry shops and hotels, and in the process, we got information that the tag could belong to the Royal Kundla Hotel,’ says the officer involved in the investigation. ‘When we reached the hotel, we also found a pillow with the same number on the tag.’ The pillow was used by 24-year-old Surya Thapa Magar, an employee of the hotel. On that basis, the police arrested him and started investigating.

According to SP Bhattarai of Kathmandu Police, during interrogation, Surya confessed to killing Ayush Magar alias Maya Magar. It was revealed that Surya, who had been working at that hotel for 7 months, had previously met Ayush at the hotel. ‘He was also found tying the body of the deceased in a sheet and throwing it on the roadside at 1:52 am on 26 Kartik,’ Bhattarai said. ‘It turned out that there was a dispute over a total of 500 rupees due to the murder.’

According to SP Bhattarai, Ayusha had reached the hotel with her friend on 23 Kartik midnight. When her friend went to her room and slept, Ayusha started talking to Surya, a hotel employee. Ayusha had borrowed 500 rupees from her to buy brown sugar. ‘Later, when Ayusha asked for the money back, there was an argument after she refused to give it. Surya tied her neck with a shoelace and threw her on the ground and punched her in the neck,’ said SP Bhattarai. ‘Later, it was found that he was thrown out in a plastic bag.’

The District Police Range, Lalitpur, arrested Kanchha Putuwar, a priest of the Machhindranath Temple in Bungamati, on charges of murder on 12 Kartik. His family had been working at the temple since his grandfather and grandmother’s time. He had built a hut and lived on the land in the name of the Guthi. At 6 pm on 11 Kartik, Dhan Bahadur Tamang knocked on the door of the hut.

‘After repeatedly knocking on the door, I opened it and looked, but he suddenly grabbed me by the neck. After being threatened, I got angry and pushed him,’ he told the police. ‘He fell to the ground after hitting an electricity pole.’ 

He said that he came out about an hour later and found Tamang lying there, but when he felt his pulse, he realized that he was dead. "I thought that since the body was in front of my house, I would know that I had killed him, so I dragged him and threw him into a nearby bamboo grove," he said. He was arrested when he returned and sat in his own hut.

On October 15, in Hilihang Rural Municipality-1 of Panchthar, 31-year-old Sandesh Rai killed his father Yubaraj over a minor dispute. Yubaraj had told his son, who had reached home in the evening after consuming alcohol, that he would sell the house and property and move to Jhapa. When the dispute over the same matter escalated, a fight broke out between the father and son.

Meanwhile, when Sandesh hit his father with a beer bottle, he was seriously injured and later died when he hit him with a chipper, according to the police. A murder case is currently underway against Sandesh in the Panchthar District Court.

Nepal Police Central Spokesperson Abinarayan Kafle says that the trend of murders being committed due to personal impulses, revenge, family relations, financial transactions, etc., rather than organized involvement, has increased in recent times. In the fiscal year 2081/82, 522 people were murdered across the country, 296 of whom were men and 165 were women.

In the previous fiscal year, 638 people were murdered across the country, 336 of whom were men and 200 were women. In the fiscal year 079/80, 522 people were murdered, 684 in 078/79, and 707 in 077/78. According to the police headquarters, 178 people were murdered in the first four months of the current fiscal year 082/83.

Domestic violence, rape, and dowry system are the main reasons for the murder of women and girls. Kathmandu Police Chief SSP Ramesh Thapa says that the question of why people commit murders on impulse rather than any long-term plan or organized involvement is related to psychological issues.

‘Most of the current murders are related to family issues, and there are also issues of social values ​​and norms,’ he said. ‘Looking at the recent crime incidents, people are feeling frustrated. People seem to have lost control due to lack of resources and means to fulfill their desires and aspirations. In some cases, unemployment also seems to be a factor in crime.’