The District Court has sentenced Aakash Ghartimagar, 27, originally from Nisikhola Rural Municipality–6, Bhalkot of Baglung and currently residing in Baragung Muktikshetra–2, Chhyanggoth of Mustang, to seven and a half years’ imprisonment on the charge of raping a 30-year-old woman.
According to Dipendra Paudel, the information officer of the Mustang District Court, the court bench on 3 February found the accused guilty and sentenced him to seven and a half years in prison, imposed a fine of Rs. 300,000, and ordered him to deposit Rs. 1,200 into the Victim Relief Fund.
The victim’s side had filed a complaint at the District Police Office, Mustang, on February 14, accusing the offender of raping the woman on the same day. Police arrested the accused on Falgun 2. A bench of District Court Judge Bidyaraj Paudel, on 11 March, ordered that he be sent to judicial custody for trial proceedings.