INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Office of the Attorney General will decide whether or not to file charge sheet against Mahara
Kathmandu, October 25
Even though Parliament
Secretariat staffer Roshani Shahi retracted her accusation of attempt to rape against former speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Kathmandu
Police submitted its investigation report to Kathmandu District Attorney Office, concluding that Mahara attempted to rape her.
Former
speaker of the House of Representatives, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, (C) leaves the Kathmandu District Court after giving his statement
following accusation by a female government employee who accused him of rape in Kathmandu, Nepal on Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Photo: Skanda Gautam/THT
A source at Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range told THT that police had submitted enough evidence to corroborate
the attempt to rape accusation made in the first information report.
The source further said that the evidence police gathered in the case,
countered Shahi retraction
&We have submitted enough evidence to prove attempt to rape case against Mahara,& the source said.
Shahi lodged an FIR accusing Mahara of
attempting to rape her but later filed an application at Kathmandu District Court retracting her statement
This was the second time she retracted her statement
A day after www.hamrakura.com reported that Shahi had accused Mahara of raping her, she retracted her statement saying the report was false
A few days after her retraction, she filed an FIR accusing Mahara of attempt to rape.
Retraction of the victim statement won&t make any
difference if police find enough evidence to file a case against the accused.
The police source said although Mahara denied going to the
victim house on September 29 when the alleged incident took place, CCTV footage and other evidences corroborated the claims in the
FIR.
&CCTV footage shows Mahara had gone to the victim house on the night of the incident,& the source added.
&We have taken permission from
KDC to carry out Mahara DNA test and if necessary we will do so,& the source said.
Police said they had collected a broken piece of Mahara
Shahi had first said Mahara had beaten her when she resisted him.
Joint Attorney at Kathmandu District Attorney Office Chandra Kanta Khanal
said the police investigation report was being studied and his office would decide whether or not to file a charge sheet against Mahara
District Attorney offices can decide not to file charge sheet if they do not find evidence corroborating the FIR
Khanal said if his office decided to file a case against Mahara, it would file a charge sheet against him on October 31 when the courts open
after Tihar festival.
If convicted, Mahara could face jail term and some additional punishment as he was the speaker at the time of the
alleged incident and the accuser a parliamentary staffer.
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