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Five Suspects Including Shooter of Gauchan Murder Case Arrested

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Five Suspects Including Shooter of Gauchan Murder Case Arrested
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November 15: Five suspects, including the shooter who killed Sharad Kumar Gautam, chairman of Federation of Contractors’ Association of Nepal (FCAN), were made public by the police on Tuesday, November 14.

According to police, eight suspects including the mastermind behind the crime are on the run. The police made the arrested suspects public amid a press meet organized in the capital.

The murder plan was executed after a month-long planning by a group led by Samirman Singh Basnet and Manoj Pun, the police said, adding, “Rajiv Syangtan shot Gauchan at the crime scene.”

The police have arrested Syangtan of Panchakanya Rural Municipality- 5, Nuwakot, Shivaji Mahato of Kalikamai Rural Municipality, Parsa, Mukesh Kumar Pandey of Bihar, India, Santosh Gurung of Thori Rural Municipality-5, Parsa and Prakash Budhathoki of Nagarjun Municipality- 4, Kathmandu.

The suspects were found with a pistol and two motorcycles. Basnet, Pun, Lopsang, Ganga Lingden, Shyam Bahadur Gumbe, Ambar Bahadur Rana, Roshan Budhathoki and Ajay Thapa among the suspects of the Gauchan murder case still at large.

Gauchan was shot dead at Baneshwar on October 9. The police were under pressure from industrialists and businessmen to arrest the criminals.

 

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