KATHMANDU: District Court Rukum West has remanded 18 individuals to 10 days in custody for further investigation.

Police on Thursday produced them at the district seeking extension of their remand.

They have been accused of attacking 19 youths including Nawaraj BK, a 21-year-old boy from Jajarkot, who came to Chaurjahari along with his friends to take his beloved Sushma Malla.

Police are yet to nab two more accused. The kin of the victims had filed an FIR against 20 individuals for their alleged involvement in the murder of six people.

Nawaraj BK, Ganesh Budha Magar, Sanju BK, Lokendra Sunar, Govinda Shahi of Bheri municipality, Jajarkot and Tikaram Nepali of Chaurjahari municipality-1, Rukum West had died in the incident on May 23.

On May 25, police had arrested 18 people including the ward chair of Chaurjahari municipality-8 Dammar Bahadur Malla, Nawaraj’s beloved Sushma and her parents.