KATHMANDU: Police have nabbed the JCB excavator driver accused of burying a 40-year-old woman alive in Dhading.

A team of police deployed from Central Investigation Bureau has arrested Bhim Bahadur Budhathoki, 22, of Chhatreswori-6, Ranagaun, Salyan in connection with the burial of Saraswati Kumal, 40, of Dhading alive.

According to the police, alleged Budhathoki, a driver of Province 3-01-003A 6564 number JCB, had knocked Kumal while widening the road; and later, in an attempt to hide the incident had buried the injured woman on March 12.

Kumal had died before she was taken out from the ditch.

The irate locals had blazed the JCB and demanded the arrest of the culprit.

The police have arrested Budhakhoki nearly three weeks after the incident.

In a press meet organized in Kathmandu on Friday, CIB claimed that the culprit was arrested from Gaddachowki, Nepalgunj.