The situation of an elderly couple from Sahodawa of Pipara Rural Municipality-5 in Mahottari district is still unknown, four days after they went missing.
Moshapheer Jha, 65, and his wife Geetadevi, 60, were kidnapped by an unidentified group in the night of February 22 from their bed, spokesman at the District Police Office Mahottari, Deputy Superintendent Prakash Bista said.
Although the police have intensified search for the missing couple since Tuesday, their whereabouts are still unknown. The incident is suspicious in that the couple had been made to disappear from bed and blood marks found in their bed and the window sill.
Police have carried out search for the missing couple in the forests, bushes, ravines around the village, in the neighbouring villages and various places of the district but have not hit any clue so far.
The locals suspect that the missing couple might have been killed and their bodies disappeared as the couple were registered as witnesses in a case related to land dispute.
Police have interrogated 20 people so far in course of investigating the missing couple case.
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