Ritesh Parajuli, 17, of Mankha VDC-7 of Sindhupalchowk was thrashed by his friend Ankit Dhakal, 18, of Laxmi Marg-5, Morang. Ankit is an eleventh grader at Times College Dillibazaar. According to DSP at Metropolitan Police Range Office, Hanumandhoka, Chakra Bahadur Singh, Ankit is in police custody for investigation.[break]
Maya Lama, the restaurant owner, said, “The two had entered the restaurant at around 12 noon and had ordered for two cups of tea. I last saw them talking on the ground floor of my restaurant but didn´t see them fighting.”
Ankit has confessed to the police that Parajuli first punched him. “In a matter of minutes he fell down. Then I asked for help to take him to the hospital,” he told the police.
Nimesh Acharya, one of Ritesh´s friends, said that the two were childhood friends and had never quarreled before. Ritesh went to Ankit´s home and asked him to talk to him over a cup of tea, he said, adding, Ritesh had not submitted the Ankit´s exam forms as he did not have the latter´s SLC certificate.
Following the incident, Ankit himself with the help of restaurant owner rushed Ritesh to Kathmandu Model Hospital but doctors pronounced him dead at around 2 pm, some 15 minutes after he was brought to the hospital. First Ankit lied to the police saying Ritesh was knocked unconscious by unidentified people but later confessed that he had thrashed Ritesh.
The dead body was then taken to TUTH for post mortem. Ritesh had been bleeding from his right ear and nose. The deceased had been staying in a rented apartment at Kalopul for the last two years with his parents.
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