NARAYANGHAT - Top Bahadur Khadka devoted all his life to spreading education so his students got the opportunity to do well in life. He was friendly, generous and a doting father of three young daughters and a son. On Saturday night at nine, while the family was watching television at home, eight men with pistols and khukuris burst into the house. They asked Top Bahadur for Rs 50,000. When he said he didn't have that kind of money, they threatened to take away his 18-year-old daughter Dipti. "Then daddy said let me find the money, give me some time," recalls a tearful Dipti, "but they shot him and he fell to the floor." Dipti's younger sisters Pravinta, Pragya and 10-year-old little brother, Abinash, can't stop crying. Their mother, Ganga, is still in shock. The assailants claimed they were Maoists, but Top Bahadur's neighbours can't understand why such a good and innocent man was killed. The police are investigating the matter but say the Maoists are probably responsible. The rebels haven't claimed responsibility.