2 years after Mamta Kafle Bhatt disappeared, husband’s murder trial nears

It’s been just over two years since Mamta Kafle Bhatt, a Manassas Park, Virginia, mother and nurse, was last seen by her mother during a video chat. In about two months, her husband is scheduled to stand trial on charges that he murdered her, defiled her body and hid her remains.

Naresh Bhatt appeared in Prince William County Circuit Court on Thursday for a hearing that focused on trial procedures rather than the evidence that’s expected to be presented to a jury. Mamta Kafle Bhatt was last seen on July 29, 2024, in a video call.

Naresh Bhatt was indicted in December 2024 on charges of first-degree murder and defiling a dead body. He was also charged, but not indicted, with concealing a dead body…

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