A man has been arrested for rape and murder of a woman in Morang on Wednesday, three months after the incident took place.

According to police, Hik Bahadur Basnet, 30, has been arrested on charges of raping and murdering Shanti Rai Tamang, 44, of Miklajung-7 in the district.

Chief of District Police Office, Morang SP Manoj KC informed that a joint special investigation team of District Police and Urlabari Area Police arrested Basnet following a three-month long investigation into the incident.

The police have accused Basnet of raping Rai and later bashing her to death with a stone on March 3 at around 11:30pm while the later was returning back to her home from the house of Kamal Bohora, a local shaman, in Miklajung-7. The police had found Rai’s body which was naked and had sustained injury to the face.