Naresh Bhatt found guilty: Family and friends of Mamta Kafle Bhatt react

Let's listen in, and here's the family outside the court. Hello, my name is Devyan Karki. I'm a 12-year-old boy, and I'm from Gainesville. Today is a day that we should proudly celebrate, as it is also a Nepali festival called Tihar, which is very similar to Diwali and can celebrate the end of evil and the victory of... Righteousness. I think we should all celebrate this day every year as a remembrance in the name of Mamta Gafle. Mic drop. I don't think we've seen a moment like that after a trial. Normally, you know, there was grief, but what that young man said right there, They're just about bringing light and... And honoring those who have fallen, that's powerful stuff. Here's another family member. That's from the first day. When I first heard about Mamta that was missing, I called in the evening, told that we're friends, families, everyone, we are there, let's go find her. Here, from the... Day first he lied to us. He played with our emotions. He thought he was just by himself. His wife left. He's with daughter. He cannot take care of the daughter. He needs food. He needs places to go find Mamta. He lied from the day beginning. Finally, not just August 4th, till 21 days. He fooled us, all the veterans' community. He told us he was the person who We need help rather than finding Mamta. That was all lie. And finally justice is made. Thank you so much, Commandolda, Virginia. There is one thing, it proved that there is no place for crime. Doesn't matter whatever crime you do, you get punished. No police, no one, no police. Doesn't matter, you have money, you have power, you have justice. Doesn't matter, you fake it or you lie it. There is a people who is always smarter than you, there is always better than you, there's always powerful than you. Thank you so much Commonwealth of Virginia for keeping veterans and all his lies you know together and providing the justice to Monta and Monta family and especially Dr. Holly who is not even in the part of this community to help this community to get together at the beginning. Thank you so much and I want to tell Dr. Holly he is here. We had arguments at the first and we got to know each other right away because we both had the same same mind finding Monta, who is Monta and we both aligned together passing information to each other that some were outside, some were told to public, some were not. But, not being the Nepalese community, see gather everyone together. I'm so from Nepalese community, one of the member of Nepalese community, I will tell you that. Thank you Dr. Holly. You did this without any of your selfishness. Thank God. You are commute. It means a lot. We had a disagreement, but she put me in the right place. She told me, you need to think in a different way. Then we started talking, then the information was shared. Thank you so much again from the bottom of my heart. And Dr. Holly is going to be the honorary citizen of Nepal. Let's give them a big round of applause. Thank you so much. We stand here today with tear-stained eyes because we got the verdict that we've been fighting for. All right. Guilty, guilty, guilty. We're a little team! I cannot thank enough my sisters, my Nepali friends, the Commonwealth attorneys, the Manassas Park Police, the little police department that could, Prince William County, all the other agencies that helped. But mostly, I have to thank my sisters that we shouted. We shouted that we knew something was wrong with Mamta. And when the police didn't listen, we shouted more. We showed up at the steps of the police station and we demanded answers. And you know what? Today we got them. Truth has come out. He killed her. He defiled her. He threw her away like trash. But let me tell you what I know. She's not trash. She wasn't trash then. She's not trash today. And we are going to do everything we can, Mom, to make sure that your daughter knows how much you are loved. And we are going to give her the best life ever. Yeah, man. And I can say finally today, Naresh Bhatt, you will never see your daughter again. Thank you again. Yeah! Thank you all. Thank you all. Please just remember, if you are a victim of domestic violence, speak up, say something. Let us save you. I would have saved Mamta. I would have picked her up and put her in my house, no questions asked. The best thing that you could do for Mamta is if you are a victim, get out. It was too late for Mamta, but it's not too late for you. Thank you. Thank you for believing us. The culprit portrayed very, very, very good story. He was still trying till this week. But you believed us. It was difficult to believe, but the trust you have given to us did not go waste. We were like one, two people at the beginning. We came through a lot of challenges, harassment, and everything. But we made it because of the community trust. Everybody came from single home. Everybody from global community. As soon as I came to know that, I called Holly. And we had one and a half hour conversation. Then we... I contacted the media, and I knew that Sachi is the one who can dig deeper, can do investigation and bring this guy to open his mouth. And we had like seven women working days and nights, and there were so many people who supported us and came this far. It was not an easy journey. Not at all and we have as a minority community we had to bring a lot of media attention at the beginning nobody would listen to us. We had to contact media, thank you Miss Holly, to give me NBC number and I contacted NBC and I would like to shout out Mr. Dave, he is the root of this all investigation. I would say at the beginning that movement, he is the one keep on inspiring, keep on asking Holly why is there is no any missing notice or anything, Mamta, because this is a person missing. Then, you know, we will keep on doing that and our wonderful sister Bina. So we three were, I'm not trying to take credit, but you know, like, that is how this whole community gathered. Everybody believed us because, you know, that was the story. But what it was shown was different because if the community did not come, if, you know, one person did not speak up, you know, Mamta would have been a missing person abandoning her child. That is how Mamta would have been. Then he made another story, Mamata had mental illness. Then he made another story, Mamata was postnatal. Because we were the witness, we knew that as soon as we saw the post in Health Nepal, we knew that Mamata was killed. Mamata is not there. And we were coming together. So thank you for believing it and trusting and saving all the daughters. We already lost Mamata, but... This is a big day. I'm like happy in the other way because of this verdict. I think anybody would think about abusing daughters, abusing wives, you know, and they will discourage. Even with all these incidents, there are so many girls, our sisters, our daughters and our even mother, they are threatened to be killed like Mamta. Please, please. Think about that. Before you guys do that, you have to come across with these ladies and all this. Yes, very proud of her. You have to, you have to break this wall. I'm challenging it. I'm challenging it. You have to break all this shield because every daughter, every wife and every human needs to be protected and treated like as a human. So this is our promise. Every daughter, everybody will protect their daughters in home. And when we are in, especially in Nepali community, when we are giving the culture, giving, lecturing your daughter, you know, you should not wear this, you should do this and that, you know, what if you are divorced, this and that. Please, lecturing your daughters, do to your sons. Teach them, be a good person, be a good human, treat your wife or other girlfriend as a human. You have to do that. And thank you so much. I'm so emotional today. I, you know, I don't know what I'm talking, but I'm feeling so relieved. Thank you so much. Sunita, if you're willing, you started the morning testifying about Naresh's abuse and you ended today hearing the verdict. What was going through your mind when the verdict came in? I was so relieved when I was testified at the first time, I heard like 1,000 objections. That was making me very frustrated because we are the voice of Mamta. That is how we started because Mamta shared that story, what she was going through. She shared with me because, you know, she trusts me. She thinks I'm a person, you know, if something comes up. I would be the person to speak up because she knew that and I was advocating and I was her mentor and you know our relation was started like a mother and daughter so that is how she uh shared with me but you know we all the evidence was showing that and even evidence was not coming we knew that it was it happened because this was a very creepy guy you know when I I was with Mamta, I was observing all the red flags, so we knew that. And my mouth was shut, I couldn't talk about what actually happened, and they were like, you know, painting. The wall had already a big hole, so I was feeling unheard, I was feeling very sad, I couldn't sleep all these two weeks, but today I could at least tell a small chunk of whatever happened, so I feel relieved and it is hard. Mamta's friends taking the microphone after hearing the jury verdict there and sharing a powerful message against domestic violence and to speak up if you are the victim, which in the end, as you heard there, both the friends saying we wish we could have done something sooner because there were red flags. Dr. Hawley-Worth, the woman who spoke prior to that, she was the one who was the face of the search effort they worked together. She worked with Mamta Koffel. We go from two years ago, August of 2024, to here in November of 2026.