INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu District Court on Monday has decided to send former House of Representatives Speaker and ruling Nepal Communist
Party leader, Krishna Bahadur Mahara to judicial custody, on the charge of attempt to rape.
A single bench of Justice Sudarsan Raj Pandey
made the decision today to send former speaker Mahara to judicial custody.
During a trial hearing, today, four government attorneys demanded
a seven-and-a-half-year jail term for Mahara, who has been accused of attempting to rape a Federal Parliament employee.
Earlier, a staffer
at the Parliament Secretariat had filed a first information report on October 4, accusing Mahara of attempting to rape her on September 29
at her rented apartment in Tinkune, Kathmandu.
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