Maina Sunuwar murderer gets life imprisonment

  April 17, 2017 By: INSEC

 The District Court, Kavrepalanchowk, on Sunday sentenced 20 years imprisonment to three Nepali Army officials involved in the murder of Maina Sunuwar nearly a decade ago.

According to the record keeper Krishna Prasad Adhikari, a single bench of district court Judge Modini Prasad Poudel gave his verdict according to which then Colonel Babi Khatri, Captain Amrit Pun and Sunil Adhikari, were slapped with life imprisonment as per the Section 3(c) of the Muluki Ain (Civil Code).
The 15-year-old Sunuwar was murdered on February 17, 2004 by meting out intense torture at the NA barrack after four days of her arrest by the then NA force. She had been studying in grade nine of the Kharelthok-based Bhagawati Higher Secondary School in Kavre at that time.
Her skeleton was recovered after an excavation carried out at her burial side following the two and half years of the murder owing to the pressure from human rights activists from home and the aboard.
A charge sheet was registered on January 21, 2008 naming then Colonel Babi Khatri of Birendra Peace Training Center, captains Amit Pun and Sunil Adhikari and major Nirajan Basnet as the accused in her murder. The case was put in pending and her mother moved the District Court, Kavre, seeking a revival of the case.
The victim’s mother Devi demanded the immediate execution of the court verdict.

Meanwhile, INSEC had conducted a comprehensive study on Maina Sunwar case and recommended the concerned authority.

http://inseconline.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Extrajudicial-Killing-of-Maina-Sunar-A-Case-Report.pdf