Police have arrested a woman on charge of murdering her stepsons in Gulmi district.

Shanta Pun, 21, of Hadhade VDC-9 is accused of first poisoning the two boys, Manish, 5, and Aashish, 7, and then strangling them to death on Tuesday night.  The next morning, she had called her family and informed that the boys had died of accidental genital electrocution.

Police said Shanta had apparently strangled the boys to death after they did not die immediately after she had poisoned them.

Shanta’s husband, Narendra, is in Saudi Arabia.

According to the neighbours, Shanta started beating the boys after her husband

left for Saudi Arabia 10 months ago.  

Police said  the case was under investigation.