Kathmandu, October 18: A group of Maoist militiamen have inflicted torture on a man in Kavre, forcing him to confess murder of his own wife who is still alive and fine.
The militias abducted 44-year-old Man Bahadur Tamang from his home village in Dolalghat-1 on Saturday and tortured him overnight at a house in Teenpiple, Panchkhal, forcing him to confess that he had killed his wife.
His 16-year-old son, Nirmal, was also taken away and beaten at a separate room, report reaching here said.
Villagers said the militia had abducted Tamang along with his second wife Chitra Kumari and son Nirmal, after he had a tiff with his first wife Dolmaya five days earlier (Oct 10).
Dolmaya went to her uncle's place after a tiff with her husband but the militiamen forced him to confess that he killed her. "I couldn't bear the torture, so I confessed that I killed her after a tiff," Tamang was quoted by Kantipur daily as saying at a police station in Dhulikhel.
He said he was tortured and whipped by door-rod, with both his hands tied backward. Eyewitnesses said they saw bruises in the bodies of Tamang as well as his son.
The newspaper also quoted Dolmaya as saying that she had frequent disputes with her husband after he married a second wife two months back. She said she heard over the radio that Maoists had caught him and forced to confess having killed her.
"Soon I contacted the Maoists but they held me too and handed to the police," she said. Police released all the family on Monday. A Maoist district secretary said Tamang might have suffered torture in course of investigation.