Police have arrested two persons on the charge of murdering former minister of state for land reforms Ram Chandra Raya Yadav.
The District Police Office, Sarlahi made them public by organizing a press conference on Monday.
The arrestees have been identified as Raya’s aide Ram Ujjain Raya (25) of Kabilashi Municipality-3 and his neighbor Birendra Raya (46) of Chandranagar Rural Municipality-1, SP Rabindra Bahadur Singh of the District Police Office, Sarlahi informed.
Raya was murdered by using a sharp weapon at his farm house in Ratanpur, Chandranagar Rural Municipality-1 on July 21.
The main reason behind the murder of Raya was a land dispute, police said.
Raya had served as the state minister when Surya Bahadur Thapa was the prime minister in 1997.
