Kathmandu. On February 12, Shalin Pokharel was found dead in the hostel of Ekta Shishu Niketan located in Ratnanagar Municipality-10 of Chitwan. Pokharel, a 14-year-old studying in class 8, was found dead hanging from a plastic rope.
The police have arrested the school principal, vice principal and warden of the hostel to investigate the incident. Those arrested are 60-year-old Balhari Devkota, 40-year-old Kiran Bahadur Adhikari and 48-year-old Kamal Sharma Paudel of Ratnanagar Municipality-10.
DSP Sriram Bhandari of District Police Office Chitwan has said that investigation is being conducted against them by the district court for 7 days for the crime related to life.
The investigating officers have found the suicide note left by Shalin. According to one of the officers involved in the investigation, she has written in the note, “Sorry everybody, sorry mummy dad.” The police is conducting a forensic examination of the suicide note. Shalin, who hails from Ajirkot Rural Municipality-5, Muchchok, was recently living in Madhavpur, Ratnanagar Municipality-15, Chitwan.
Shalin used to study in that hostel since two years. His father and mother divorced and his mother lives in Dubai and his father lives in Kathmandu. The police recovered the body hanging from the fan and sent it to the University Teaching Hospital for post-mortem. The postmortem report of his body is yet to come. The investigating officers are now waiting for the post-mortem report of his body. DSP Bhandari says, “After the post-mortem report, we will proceed with further investigation.”