After the murder of her 36-year-old mother Anita Devi, 12-year-old Kajal says: ”I wish I hadn't gone to the party that night. My mother was killed alone at home. She didn't even spare her mother's killer.”
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Kajal Kumari Raya, 12, of Banarjhula, Tilathi Koiladi Rural Municipality-5, Saptari, has not been able to sleep after her mother's 'murder'. The body of her 36-year-old mother Anita Devi, who had been missing for a week, was found with her hands and feet tied on the western bank of the Koshi River last Wednesday. Kajal has not been able to sleep as her mother's decomposed body is still roaming before her eyes. When she reached there on Sunday, Kajal, a daughter of a migrant worker, was sitting in front of her house looking at her mother's photo and crying for justice. 'I wish I hadn't gone to Janti that night, my mother was alone at home and was murdered,' she says, 'She didn't even spare my mother's killer.' Her eyes filled with tears as she spoke. After her mother went missing, Kajal, who was in Janti, was called on the phone to say that 'the cow has gone missing.' However, after seeing her mother in the cowshed when she returned home, she kept asking neighbors and villagers repeatedly for her mother.
Her father Birendra had returned from vacation and returned to Qatar for foreign employment only 3 months ago. While Kajal's sister was at home, she had been living with her mother. However, on the previous Wednesday (23 Baisakh), Kajal had reached Amarba Tole on her birthday. That same night, her mother Anita Devi was abducted from her home by a group of 5/7 people. The next day, when Anita Devi was not seen at home, the neighbors started searching.
After seeing blood spatters inside the house, they informed the police and called Kajal. When the villagers and the police went to search together, Anita Devi's body was found in the Koshi River at a place called 9 kilometers from the same ward last Wednesday. ‘The body was found with her sister-in-law’s (Anita Devi) saree tied around her neck, her hands and feet tied, and 10/12 kg stones wrapped around her feet and head,’ said the deceased’s Nanda Radha Rai. ‘The sister-in-law had repeatedly asked her neighbor to open the blocked road, so the neighbor killed her while no one was home.’
The deceased’s husband, Birendra, who returned from Qatar last Friday after the incident, also said that he had been in a dispute with his neighbor over the road for months. ‘The couple had spoken on the phone from 11 to 12 o’clock on the night she went missing. She had also told him about the problem of not being able to reach her house,’ he said. ‘The next day, when I called her again, I could not get in touch. After a while, the neighbor called and informed me.’
Birendra demanded that the murderer be brought to justice. "I have received information that the police have taken three people, including two neighbors, into custody," he said. "We request all parties to cooperate in bringing the most severe punishment to those who killed my wife."
District Police Office spokesperson DSP Dambar Bahadur Puri said that some of the accused have been taken into custody in the incident and further investigation is underway. "We found the woman's body with her hands tied behind her back and her feet tied," he said. "The postmortem report has not come yet. Further investigation is underway."
