Two more persons have been arrested for their alleged involvement in shooting Rohit Chaudhary (28) of Biratnagar Metropolitan City-5 to death.

Police said that so far, they have apprehended four persons involved in supplying the weapon (pistol) used in the incident and in the murder.

DSP Raj Kumar Rai, spokesperson at the District Police Office, Sunsari, said that two more persons were nabbed from Biratnagar and Dharan.

The arrestees have been identified as Prakash Limbu (30) of Prithvinagar, Bhadrapur Municipality-1, Jhapa and currently residing at Bhotepul, Dharan Sub-Metropolitan City-8 of Sunsari and Ajay Kumar Sharma aka Anju (41) of Janapath Tole, Biratnagar Metropolitan City-15.

DSP Rai said that Limbu has direct involvement in the murder.

Preliminary investigation revealed that Sharma had provided the pistol used in the incident to the racket involved in the murder.

Earlier, police had detained Deepak Timinsina (35) of Letang Municipality-1, Morang and Anasan Tamang (34) of Dharan-10, Sunsari for their alleged involvement in the murder of Chaudhary.

Koshi Province police Chief DIG Rajesh Nath Bastola on Wednesday made public Timilsina and Tamang by organizing a press conference at the Biratnagar-based Province Police Office.

DIG Bastola said that the duo were arrested with the pistol and seven rounds of bullets.

Chaudhary was shot dead near Seuti Bridge of Dharan on June 21.

A group of robbers shot Chaudhary to death in the Charkoshe Jungle while he was returning home in Biratnagar from Mulghat Dhunkuta after celebrating his 28^th birthday.

Incapacitated in the incident, Chaudhary was rushed to the Dharan-based BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences for treatment. But doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

Sundari police Chief SP Sambhu Prasad Dhakal said that Timinsina, who had a criminal background, had opened fire on Chaudhary.

Timinsina was released two months ago after serving 10 years in prison on the rape charge.

Similarly, police said that Tamang was released two years ago after serving six months in prison in the drug case.