Biratnagar, Nov. 18 -- year-old Anshu Gautam of Letang Municipality-2, Morang, have been refusing to receive her body for the last four weeks, demanding that the authorities first identify those involved in her death.

Anshu had left home on the afternoon of October 7, the day of Kojagrat Purnima, telling her family she was going out to play. When she did not return by evening, relatives and neighbours searched the area and later filed a missing person report with the police.

Eighteen days after the report was filed, on October 24, locals discovered a severely decomposed body in the Chisang community forest, about four kilometres from her home. The body-found with the head detached and in an unrecognisable state-was identified by the fam...