Kathmandu, May 27 -- On May 15, at around 8 pm, 20-year-old Jenny Khadka was doused with acid by her husband, Bishnu Bhujel, in Kalopul. The couple had a strained one-year marriage.
During interrogation, Bhujel said that he had come to Kathmandu from Banepa, where he worked at a motorcycle garage, with only one intention: to hurl acid over his wife.
According to the Metropolitan Police Circle, Ranipokhari, who is investigating the case, Bhujel had obtained the acid from a jewellery shop in Banepa.
"Bhujel said that he had got the acid from a jewellery shop. He knew the owner and had asked for the acid on the pretext of removing a splinter from his leg," Deputy Superintendent of Police Rabindra Nath Paudel, in-charge of the circle, told t...