The family of 16-year-old Inisa BK, who died under suspicious circumstances, has agreed to receive her body 27 days after the incident.

The family said preparations are underway to perform her last rites on Thursday at Samjhighat near the Bheri bridge in Surkhet.

Police said the family agreed to receive the body following the completion of legal procedures.

On March 7, the teenage girl, originally from ward 6 of Badakholi in Gurbhakot Municipality and residing in Birendranagar Municipality-1 for her education, was found unconscious and bleeding in the Janajagaran Community Forest in Birendranagar-4.

Despite being rushed to the provincial hospital by local residents and police officers, she was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
The family and relatives alleged that she was gang-raped and murdered. They, along with various rights groups and the general people, staged demonstrations in several parts of the country, demanding a fair investigation and punishment for those responsible.

Police launched investigations by arresting four suspects. The Surkhet police recommended charging ‘Birendranagar Pa’, pseudonym given to the main suspect, with rape and murder, while suggesting the other three face charges only for their presence at the scene and their failure to intervene to save Inisa.

Following this, the District Government Attorney’s Office in Surkhet filed a charge sheet against four suspects for their alleged involvement in the crime.

A post-mortem report from Bheri Hospital in Nepalgunj confirmed a harrowing cause of death: excessive bleeding resulting from deep internal injuries to the genitalia—injuries the report noted were consistent with a ‘violent and forceful’ sexual assault.