According to the police, 84-year-old Jagat Prasad Shilpkar, a resident of Changunarayan Municipality-2, Bhaktapur, died in his own house after burning.
Bhaktapur Deputy Superintendent of Police Raju Pandey informed that the body of an old man was found burnt from the waist down at a three-storied concrete house.
According to the police, the old man lived alone on the ground floor of the house, while his son-in-law lived upstairs.
The cause of the old man's death has not been revealed. "Due to the old age, the clothes may have caught fire while smoking or there may be other causes, we are investigating," said DSP Pandey.