The bodies of Armed Police Force personnel Om Prakash Pun Magar and Tirtha Bahadur Thapa Magar were found floating in water near a bridge in the Brahmapur area of Tanakpur, India.
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An Armed Police Force jawan and a local man who had been missing since last Friday from the Parshuram Municipality-5 area of Dadeldhura have been found dead. Four days after their disappearance, their bodies were found in different places in the Mahakali River.
According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Barun Bahadur Singh, Chief of the Dadeldhura District Police Office, the body of Tirtha Bahadur Thapa Magar, a local of about 55, was found in the Mahakali River under Parshuram Municipality-5 on Monday. The police have said that they have initiated the necessary legal process immediately after the body was found.
According to the police, Thapa Magar and Armed Police Force jawan Om Prakash Pun Magar had been missing since last Friday. Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and locals were mobilized to search for them. Continuous search operations were being conducted in the areas around the Mahakali River.
Meanwhile, the body of Armed Police Force jawan Om Prakash Pun Magar, who was working in the vicinity of the Border Outpost (BOP) of the Armed Police Force, was found in the Indian area adjacent to Kanchanpur, according to the police.
According to Police Inspector Birendra Singh Thapa of the District Police Office, Kanchanpur, Pun Magar's body was found floating in the water near a bridge in the Brahmapur area of Tanakpur, India, by the Indian Border Security Force (SSB). He informed that since the body was found in Indian territory, the investigation and postmortem work have been carried out as per the legal procedures there.
'We also carry out all the legal procedures ourselves when an Indian person is found in our territory,' he said, 'Now since it was found in their territory, they will carry out the legal procedures on their own.'
According to Police Inspector Thapa, even though the body belongs to a Nepali citizen, since it was found on Indian soil, the incident report, postmortem and other legal procedures will be completed by the Indian security agencies and administration. After that, necessary coordination is being made to hand over the body to the relatives. Police say that more clarity will be gained about the incident only after the postmortem report comes. However, it is initially suspected that they may have drowned in the Mahakali River.
In such incidents that occur along the border between Nepal and India, legal proceedings are taken forward by coordinating between the security agencies of both countries. Police have stated that further investigation into the incident is ongoing.
