Man kills wife over ‘infidelity’

KATHMANDU, AUG 28 - A woman was murdered by her husband in Bhaktapur on Sunday night. Rajesh Deula, a permanent resident of Bhelukhel—a kilometre east of the Nyatapole temple—shot dead his wife Shova, claiming that she was in an extra-marital relationship with one CP Lama of Patan. Deula, enraged and emboldened by the cold-blooded murder of his wife, even reached Lama’s residence early Monday morning to kill him. Fortunately, for Lama, both of Deula’s pistols failed to fire, causing him to flee. At 12.50 in the afternoon, Deula turned himself in to the Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range (MPR), Hanumandhoka. Two pistols made in Germany and China, along with five rounds each, were recovered by police. “She betrayed me so I had to kill her,” a solemn Deula told the Post. “After shooting her on the bed, I sat on the floor for a couple of hours and then left the house.” Deula, in his early 40s and clad in a loose T-shirt, jeans and a blue cap, seemed unable to recall the exact moment when he shot wife Shova. Shova worked at the Patan Museum while Deula is currently unemployed and was preparing to go to Dubai in search of work.

There were just two others in the house when Deula opened fire point-blank on his sleeping wife. Of their three children—a son and two daughters—only the youngest daughter, Roniya Deula,14, was present while son Roman, 20, and daughter Reshma, 21, were at their friends’ place. Roniya was sleeping in the room next door when the shooting took place. However, as she was unable to hear the firing, it was only in the morning that she discovered her mother’s body. Deula had already fled the scene by then. According to police, Deula shot Shova once in the back of the head. The bullet seems to have tunnelled through the right temple of the victim, said police. A bullet casing has also been recovered from scene of the crime. SSP Jay Bahadur Chand, chief of the MPR, Kathmandu, said as Deula had pressed the gun barrel hard to Shova’s head before pulling the trigger, the gunfire wasn’t loud enough to disturb the sleeping locals. “Usually a gun makes noise when a bullet is fired from a certain distance,” said Chand. Meanwhile, Shova’s relatives rubbished Deula’s allegations that Shova had been involved in extra-marital relations. “She was a mother of three children. How could she have an extra-marital affair?” asked Laxman Deula, Shova’s younger brother. From sweeper to looter, murderer

Rajesh Deula is not a new name in the Capital’s crime records. On November 22, 2005, Deula looted the Rastriya Beema Sansthan near Singha Durbar, using two “pen guns” to take officials under control. The first person in Nepal to use pen guns, Deula even opened fire at the Sansthan’s guard, Bayan Bahadur Karki, injuring him. Police arrested Deula soon after the incident, along with the looted amount of Rs 615,000 and the weapons he carried. After serving his jail term, Deula was released on March 9, 2009. It has also been learnt that Deula was a street sweeper supervisor, employed by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), before the robbery.
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