A woman has been arrested on charge of masterminding the murder of her own father over property dispute.

Police on Tuesday arrested Sangita Maharjan of Tokha, Kathmandu, along with six accomplices, for slaying Maila Maharjan, 43, of Tokha on February 4.

Police identified other arrestees as Santosh Pandey, Sangita's husband, Bikram Tamang, of Dhading, Surya Rana Magar, of Makwanpur, Dhan Kumar Tamang, of Bhojpur, Hari Tamang, of Kavri and Santosh Thapa Magar of Dhading. 

According to police, Sangita had decided to marry Pandey of Nuwakot despite opposition from her family.

As a trained beautician, Sangita had been pestering her father to put money into a beauty parlour before her marriage. 

After getting married with Pandey, Sangita again started badgering her father into giving her Rs 300,000 to 400,000 so that she could start the venture. But her father refused.

According to police, at one point, the father had agreed to sell his land to give her the required money. But when the father showed no signs of selling the land, Sangita, along with her husband, hatched a plot to kill the entire family and acquire the property. Sangita then asked Bikram Tamang and his friends to kill her father.

"Earlier, the group had made an unsuccessful attempt to kill the man on January 31," said Senior Superintend of Police Sarbendra Khanal, chief of Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Teku.

On the day of the murder, Sangita had asked her father to accompany her to a nearby bridge. 

When at the bridge, she threw sand in Maila's eyes and Bikram, Surya Rana Magar, Dhan Kumar Tamang, Hari Tamang and Santosh Thapa Magar killed him. 

According to SSP Khanal, Sangita had agreed to pay Rs 1million for the murder but the perpetrators had later demanded Rs 5million for the killing.