August 26 update: A judge has ruled Naresh Bhatt be held without bond during a hearing in court this morning. A judge said Bhatt was considered a flight risk following his arrest for disposing a body last week. The judge also said he posed a danger to the community. Police found evidence that a body had been dragged, and large amounts of blood were evident at the home of Mamta Kafle Bhatt, according to court documents from her husband's arraignment August 26 morning. Additionally, prosecutors say on July 30 Naresh Bhatt purchased three knives, two of which have not been found. Investigators say there is video evidence of Naresh Bhatt buying cleaning supplies on July 31, the last day he claimed to see Mamta.
August 15: Mamta Kafle Bhatt a Nepali Mother in Virginia America is Still Missing. She has beeen living in US since 2021. Friends, family and complete strangers are continuing the search for a missing woman who disappeared in late July. Police have reason to believe she didn't take off willingly. Mamta Kafle Bhatt, 28, was last seen on July 31 and never showed up to her Aug. 1 shift at Inova Fairfax Hospital where she worked as a pediatric nurse. She was reported missing Aug. 5, three days after police went to her home to conduct a welfare check. Welfare
Manassas Park Police Chief Mario Lugo said authorities are “investigating all possible circumstances and the husband has been cooperating with the investigation. Detectives are following up on some leads. If anything develops, I will let you know”. Police are saying what we can share at this time is the following: the investigators have conducted several follow-ups with neighbors, friends, co-workers and the husband. Manassas Park Police is continuously updating this case in their Facebook page. Police is urging anyone with information to contact the department at 703-361-1136 or contact the Manassas/Manassas Park Crime Solvers anonymously at 703-330-0330.
In a press conference with community leaders and concerned neighbors outside the police department her husband, Naresh Bhatt whos is from Mahendranagar Nepal, spoke in front of reporters asking the community for it’s continued support saying in part, “I need your help in a positive way. Thank you for doing what you are doing, keep doing what you are doing during this difficult time.” "I have only one message for her. If you are anywhere, if you able to listen to this…for my baby, you got to be here as soon as possible," "I have only one message for her. If you are anywhere, if you able to listen to this…for my baby, you got to be here as soon as possible," Sarita Neupane, a co-worker and close friend of Kafle, told the crowd Kafle had left home in the past. She stayed with her earlier this year for a few days but at the time, family members knew where she was. This time, nobody knows where Kafle is and Neupane said that’s why friends and family believe there’s a reason to be concerned.
Her friends are saying, "This is a loving mother missing, she is very strong, determined and hardworking. Mamta has a 10 month old baby girl, who was her absolute world. She would have never left her behind. We're anxious, we're frustrated, but we're hopeful we find her and we love her very much.". Her friends have created "Find Mamta Bhatt" facebook page and gofund me to intensify her search. According to a post on the Facebook page organizing to find her, Bhatt was reportedly attempting to separate from her husband and had joined a support group for single mothers. There is another Facebook page created by Nepali Community, "Help Find Mamata Kafle Bhatta". There are various news outlet such as ABC, Washington Post, NBC, Newsweek, Yahoo, Fox, USA Today, People etc. that have covered this missing case. Several public search groups are searching wooded areas and park around her house.
USPA, a nation wide security partnering with Nancy Grace, a tv personality and offering $5000 reward for credible information in this missing case.
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It's her husband. Search his house not the park.
What is involuntary circumstances? Did she left unwillingly?
Mansassas Park Police has just provided new update: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=546433764581129&set=a.120022070555636
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On July 31, she did not call her mother in Nepal, as she had faithfully done every morning and evening, to share the mundane — what she ate that day — and the significant — the milestones her infant daughter was hitting, her brother said in an interview.
On Aug. 1, co-workers called police when she missed a shift at UVA Health Prince William Medical Center. A Manassas Park police officer went to her house the next day to do a welfare check but left after her husband declined to report her missing, the police department said in a news release. Family still had not heard from her, said the brother, who described pleading with his brother-in-law on Aug. 4 to call authorities.
On Aug. 5, Mamta Kafle Bhatt’s husband reported her missing, formally engaging police in a search effort already underway by the nurse’s family and friends.Her brother, Mahesh Kafle, and other supporters spoke to The Washington Post in a bid to keep public attention on the case, offering new details on the timeline of her disappearance and other information about her life that they hope might help bring the 28-D.C. region.In a TV interview, Naresh Bhatt pleaded for his wife to return to him and their baby, who will turn 1 this month. When reached by phone, he did not answer questions. He did not respond to text messages or answer the door of the couple’s house on Heather Court in Manassas Park.
Accounts of the couple’s relationship from Mamta Bhatt’s brother and two friends, as well as her own posts in a private Facebook group, reflect turbulence that prompted her to leave the home at least once, in February.Kafle, as well as friends Ashish Sangroula and Sarita Neupane, said the couple had a disagreement then that resulted in Bhatt staying with Neupane for a week. It was not clear what caused the strain. Police did not respond to questions about whether there had been any past calls for service at the home. Neighbors who came to the door Thursday said the couple largely kept to themselves.Stuti Lamsal Poudel joins people gathered outside the Manassas Park Police Department on Thursday to press for more information about the disappearance of Mamta Kafle Bhatt.
Neupane first met Bhatt because her husband was friends with Naresh Bhatt, 37. Neupane said that the couple had an arranged marriage in 2020 and that Mamta Bhatt immigrated to the United States in 2021. A fellow nurse from Nepal, Neupane said she helped Bhatt navigate becoming a registered nurse in the United States.
Bhatt and her baby arrived at Neupane’s home in February without money, a car or a working phone, she said, so Neupane bought her a used phone and added her to her family’s phone plan to ensure she could coordinate ride-share trips to her shifts at the hospital.
Neupane said that, at one point, Mamta Bhatt briefly had her own apartment in Falls Church. In an interview with WUSA9, Naresh Bhatt cited this as a reason he did not immediately report her missing, saying she had gone missing three times before.
“At that time, she has some demands so that’s why she just step out and stay with a couple times with her friends and one time she moved to Falls Church, to someone, I don’t know the name but she has an apartment,” Naresh Bhatt told the reporter, according to a WUSA9 article.The same month, posts from Mamta Bhatt’s Facebook account began appearing in a closed group for single mothers in the DMV area, asking for help.
In posts on Feb. 6 and 16, Bhatt’s account seeks advice from the group on navigating a separation and retaining custody of her baby. In follow-up comments, she appears to post about being new to the United States, unsure of where to go for legal help and worried about money.
Her posts caught the attention of Veronika Simon, who saw her own experience reflected in Bhatt’s words. The 30-year-old mother of a young daughter immigrated to the United States from Ukraine and turned to the Facebook group for help in a time of need. Members connected her with local domestic violence shelters and support groups.
“I think she was in distress,” said Simon, who never met Bhatt but was motivated to join in the search for her this week. “I know how hard it is to navigate immigration, relationships, being a new mom and also trying to work.”
Volunteers search for Bhatt on Thursday at Blooms Park.
Along with dozens of others, Simon donned a neon-yellow safety vest and a whistle on Thursday to spend her evening scouring Manassas Park’s Blooms Park Trail for any sign of Bhatt.
Though most did not know Bhatt, all had a reason her story resonated with them. Kevin Perez owned a private investigator firm for four years and wanted to use his experience to help out. Stephanie Courtney couldn’t help but be reminded of her own daughter — a 33-year-old nurse practitioner with young children. Deborah Corpening, a mother and medical professional, said she was haunted by the thought of an 11-month-old not knowing where her mom is.
For Prabhav Shah, a fellow Nepali immigrant, the search was something he could do in the face of fear for her safety.
Many members of the community are distraught and looking to help in any way they can, whether it be reaching out to the Embassy of Nepal or spending hours walking through the woods — even if the odds of finding her there were low.“There’s always a 1 percent chance there, and that’s enough,” Shah said.
One group in the search party stood out — instead of neon safety vests, they wore dark-blue scrubs. A group of nurses, some of whom worked closely with Bhatt and others who never met her, had attended a gathering at the police station, then headed to the park.
Among them was Bhatt’s former co-worker, Holly Wirth, who immediately grew concerned when she heard Bhatt had not showed up to her shift as a pediatric nurse because it was so out of her friend’s character.
“We are not sleeping well,” Wirth said about the group of nurses. “This has become our part-time — if not full-time — jobs, fighting to bring her home.”
A group of nurses, some who work with Bhatt, join the search for her.
Wirth said Bhatt’s friends and family have questions about why police did not do more to locate her during the Aug. 2 welfare check.
Marking a welfare check as “complete” without making direct contact with the subject is not entirely unusual, said Ian Adams, a policing scholar at the University of South Carolina. If police make contact with a person close to the subject, such as a husband, that can also be considered sufficient, Adams said, adding that officers’ ability to probe further is limited in a noncriminal call.
“Police have to be sort of careful around these sorts of things,” Adams said. “It’s not the case that a welfare check gives you the right to barge into homes or start conducting a criminal investigation.”
Manassas Park police did not respond to questions about the welfare check Aug. 2 or an inquiry Saturday about whether Bhatt’s disappearance was being investigated as a criminal matter.
As the days continue to pass without answers, Bhatt’s family and friends grow increasingly alarmed. But while her brother fights to obtain a visa to come search for his sister in person, he implores the community to continue searching.
“What we need to do is find Mamta, to look for her,” Kafle said. “No matter what, I need to find my younger sister.”
Link of the police briefing in front of her house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp9kIx6ikqw&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwjla.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE
Husband charged, concealing a body. They found blood on the carpet. He is toasted. Now they need to locate the body. Then he will be forever locked up.
Did they find her yet? Why it is taking so long? No updates.
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