VA VA - Mamta Kafle Bhatt, 28, mom & pediatric nurse, 'involuntary missing,' husband reported her missing Aug 5, Manassas Park, 31 July 2024 *Arrest* #2

[LittleSeaTree]

Bodycam of missing woman's hubby raises eyebrows: 'Sometimes she came back'

Bodycam shows Naresh Bhatt, the husband charged in the disappearance of Virginia nurse Mamta Kafle Bhatt, telling police that she struggled with mental health.

www.newsweek.com

I kinda wish they wouldn’t use “hubby”. That normally seems to be an endearing term, imo! He sure doesn’t deserve that.

 

[Chimera]

I kinda wish they wouldn’t use “hubby”. That normally seems to be an endearing term, imo! He sure doesn’t deserve that.

ITA !!
Smh.

 

[Rita7]

I kinda wish they wouldn’t use “hubby”. That normally seems to be an endearing term, imo! He sure doesn’t deserve that.

I couldn't agree more!

 

[Charlot123]

This really chaps my hide. To serve in the military you need to be fluent in English. To serve as a police officer (or get into the academy in his case), you need to be fluent in English.

Now he needs a gaggle of interpreters.

During Friday’s hearing, Ben-Avraham requested supplementary Nepalese interpreters for Bhatt, indicating that guidelines mandate a single interpreter work no more than 30 consecutive minutes in a given hearing. A Sept. 20 bond hearing in the Bhatt case lasted approximately two and a half hours.

Ben-Avraham said for the upcoming trial Bhatt will need two or perhaps three interpreters. Irving said she would check with the Supreme Court of Virginia for interpreter availability.

After brief hearing Friday, Naresh Bhatt to return to court Oct. 10

Prosecutors and the defense in the Naresh Bhatt case will return to Prince William Circuit Court next month as the case inches closer to its scheduled December trial date.

www.insidenova.com

I understand what you mean, and yes, it is ridiculous given that he comes from Nepal.
However, I don’t mind the state paying for the interpreters, because otherwise in his appeal he’ll say that he didn’t understand something, that the court used his poor command of English, or such nonsense.

 

[Charlot123]

I kinda wish they wouldn’t use “hubby”. That normally seems to be an endearing term, imo! He sure doesn’t deserve that.

He is a “baddy hubby”.

 

[Tealgrove]

This has all the earmarks of the Jennifer Doulas murder.

MOO

 

[PommyMommy]

OCT 3, 2024

Commonwealth fights to keep Naresh Bhatt jailed in Manassas Park mom disappearance case

Naresh is set to appear in court on October 10 for a motion hearing.

www.wjla.com

On Tuesday, prosecutors filed a response opposing the defendant's motion to quash Naresh's arrest warrant on the grounds the warrant was obtained using "false statements." The defense's argument centers on a written line in the criminal complaint of evidence the body was "dragged out of the residence," but police later stated in a letter to the Commonwealth's attorney that evidence only supports the body had been dragged inside.

In the filing, the Commonwealth argues:“Search warrant affidavits, just as criminal complaints, ‘are normally drafted by nonlawyers in the midst and haste of a criminal investigation,’ and therefore ‘must be interpreted in a commonsense matter.’”

 

[PommyMommy]

OCT 4, 2024

Exclusive: Police Chief weighs in after defense argues arrest warrant for Mamta Kafle Bhatt's husband should be thrown out

Naresh Bhatt is charged with 'concealing a dead body', however, his wife remains missing.

www.wusa9.com

On Friday, Manassas Park Police Chief Mario Lugo told WUSA9 that the case against Naresh Bhatt is based on a lot of evidence.

[...]

"A lot of tips we received, they believe she's in a body of water, just based on some statements made by Naresh and stuff in the past," said Lugo.

[...]

• He explained that they look at the records to see if any of the tips match up to areas that the GPS shows he may have visited.
• It takes time to verify...it will take a lot to have a dive team go in and search these bodies of water.
• Lugo expects another search to be conducted by LE in the next couple of weeks.
• He did not wish to go into detail about the location.

 

[MassGuy]

I’m convinced she’s in a landfill, and I think this upcoming search will involve a landfill.

As we’ve seen in other cases, it requires preparation and funding to undertake a search like that. That’s why he’s able to give advanced notice of a search (the Kelsey Berreth case they explicitly told us it was a landfill over a month before).

They’ll follow up on the water tips, but I don’t expect that to be relevant here (except for maybe dumping a knife or something).

 

[LadyL]

OCT 4, 2024

Exclusive: Police Chief weighs in after defense argues arrest warrant for Mamta Kafle Bhatt's husband should be thrown out

Naresh Bhatt is charged with 'concealing a dead body', however, his wife remains missing.

www.wusa9.com

On Friday, Manassas Park Police Chief Mario Lugo told WUSA9 that the case against Naresh Bhatt is based on a lot of evidence.

[...]

"A lot of tips we received, they believe she's in a body of water, just based on some statements made by Naresh and stuff in the past," said Lugo.

[...]

• He explained that they look at the records to see if any of the tips match up to areas that the GPS shows he may have visited.
• It takes time to verify...it will take a lot to have a dive team go in and search these bodies of water.
• Lugo expects another search to be conducted by LE in the next couple of weeks.
• He did not wish to go into detail about the location.

[bbm]

ok I'm very curious about those tips about a body of water
what did he say and who did he say it to I wonder?

 

[Charlot123]

[bbm]

ok I'm very curious about those tips about a body of water
what did he say and who did he say it to I wonder?

He is a fisherman, isn't he? He had a friend (a realtor?) and they used to fish together. In NB's FB, there is one photo where he is dragging a huge fish. It stuck in my mind.

 

[iamshadow21]

I’m convinced she’s in a landfill, and I think this upcoming search will involve a landfill.

As we’ve seen in other cases, it requires preparation and funding to undertake a search like that. That’s why he’s able to give advanced notice of a search (the Kelsey Berreth case they explicitly told us it was a landfill over a month before).

They’ll follow up on the water tips, but I don’t expect that to be relevant here (except for maybe dumping a knife or something).

I think the body of water is of interest. You linked to tweets yourself about phone location data a while back. I think there's something to be found there. Whether it's remains... who knows.

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Aug 26, 2024

https://twitter.com/x/status/1828145904240730517

https://twitter.com/x/status/1828146022230696376

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MOO

 

[?!?]

He is a fisherman, isn't he? He had a friend (a realtor?) and they used to fish together. In NB's FB, there is one photo where he is dragging a huge fish. It stuck in my mind.

Perhaps he was 'fishing' for a good place to dump a corpse....

 

[Charlot123]

Perhaps he was 'fishing' for a good place to dump a corpse....

Potentially, one can ask local fishermen if among these lakes, there was one with unusually good "fish nibble" the week after Mamta dissapeared, you know? Just a thought.

 

[MassGuy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1842685025474519253

 

[LadyL]

He is a fisherman, isn't he? He had a friend (a realtor?) and they used to fish together. In NB's FB, there is one photo where he is dragging a huge fish. It stuck in my mind.

oh wow I didn't know that

 

[PommyMommy]

OCT 6, 2024

Mamta Kafle Bhatt supporters raise awareness at Nepali festival in Manassas

Supporters of Mamta Kafle Bhatt hosted a booth at the Dashain Tihar Festival in Manassas, where they passed out flyers Saturday.

wjla.com

For one volunteer, she said she couldn't help but feel connected to Mamta ever since her disappearance.

"It’s just a case of, you know, you keep hammering away, finding a loophole, finding the places where we can do better," Kosatka said. "We go to every hearing. We will always be there for every day of the trial. This is not something we’re ever going to let go."

 

[PommyMommy]

Prince William Circuit Court
Case #: CR24002302-00
Defendant: BHATT, NARESH DATT

Hearing Information

12/18/2024 10:00 AM JURY TRIAL
12/17/2024 10:00 AM JURY TRIAL
12/16/2024 10:00 AM JURY TRIAL
12/11/2024 10:00 AM JURY TRIAL
12/10/2024 10:00 AM JURY TRIAL
12/09/2024 10:00 AM JURY TRIAL
12/09/2024 09:00 AM ARRAIGNMENT
11/20/2024 01:00 PM PRE-TRIAL
11/02/2024 10:00 AM MOTION - OTHER PRE-TRIAL

Virginia Judiciary Online Case Information System

 

[PommyMommy]

OCT 10, 2024

Naresh Bhatt's hearing in missing Va. mom Mamta Kafle case rescheduled to Nov. 7

A scheduled hearing for Naresh Bhatt, the husband of missing Manassas Park mother Mamta Kafle Bhatt, was rescheduled to November 7 after it was set for Thursday

wjla.com

A scheduled hearing for Naresh Bhatt, the husband of missing Manassas Park mother Mamta Kafle Bhatt, was rescheduled to November 7 after it was set for Thursday, Oct. 10.

The Franks hearing, which means the defense is challenging the information used to support a search warrant, was scheduled in Bhatt's case in late September but initially moved to Oct. 10 after the court couldn't find a Nepalese interpreter for Naresh.

 

[Linear13]

Let’s see…buys knives…buys cleaning supplies…wife is missing. How many husbands/BFs/Sig O’s have done this and then say “She just left”…whether to go to a different country, to meet a family member that doesn’t exist, to runaway with a new partner, to get a pack of smokes…we have heard it all. The cleaning supplies always give them away.

Unfortunately unless they find her remains he may end up free. The list of missing women going back to the inception of the US keeping up with missing people is replete with wives disappearing and husbands/BF’s saying ‘She just disappeared in the night’…’She left for another man’…’She went to the store’ etc etc etc and they go free because a body or evidence is never found. I will say forensics is much better today than it was in those days. Yet we have seen blatant killers go free because of no body…or they find the body but the case is irretrievably messed up because of stupidity …we are looking at you Morphew.

MOO and my own speculation only.