Manassas

Mamta Kafle’s mother testifies as the Bhatt trial breaks until Tuesday

Naresh Bhatt
File photo. Naresh Bhatt booking photo, not Thursday’s testimony. Credit Prince William-Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center.

Gita Kafle told a Manassas courtroom she and her daughter often video-called two or three times a day until the calls stopped around July 30, 2024, DC News Now reports.

She said she reached Naresh Bhatt about five days later and he told her Mamta had gone to work and had not come back. The trial recessed Thursday until Tuesday at 9 a.m. Detective Claudia Ventura of Manassas Park Police is expected back on the stand. The paper said about an hour of body-camera video from her August 2024 interviews with Bhatt was played Thursday.

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