Two students of Yangchenphug Higher Secondary were arrested
for battering a 24-year old man in Central Plaza in Thinphu on June 7.
The case was reported by one informer to the police when the
informant found one man being stabbed at around 7pm while the crime occurred at
around 6 pm.
The incident occurred when the victim who is a school
dropout, went to the entire neighbor’s place looking for his wife and entered
into a house where the two boys were residing and after he strangled one of the
two boys, they took him out to the corridor and kicked him in every parts of
his body; banged him on the pillars and wall of the buildings.
The boys in their statement stated that the victim was annoying
them and was insisting them by saying that they would know about where his wife
must have been.
The boys after battered
the man left him lying in the corridor and have gone to their home.
However he followed them to their place and met with the
cook who is working with one of the restaurant in Central Plaza and he stopped
him from finding the boys.
When he insisted to follow the boy, the cook lifted him up
and dropped down on the cemented corridor and the cook left him.
Later when the cook was walking to his home, the man stabbed
him from the back, which the police describe as a clean and regular major cut
on the outer aspect of the right eye and on the right shoulder blade.
The police recovered the kitchen knife from the victim who
later turned into a suspect.
The four suspects were arrested on the same day and they are
under the police custody for necessary action.
