Six Years of Imprisonment for the Convict of Sexual Abuse

  January 10, 2023 By: INSEC

District Court of Baglung has sentenced the imprisonment of six years to a 35-year-old man, from Bareng Rural Municipality-3, for the convicted offense of sexual abuse of a 15- year-old girl. The accused was remotely related to the victim.

According to Surya Prasad Bhandari, Information Officer of District Court Baglung, the final order of District Judge Diwakar Bhatt, on January 9, 2023, sentenced the accused to imprisonment along with a compensation of Rs 20,000 to the victim.
The victim filed a complaint at District Police Office Baglung on November 8, 2021,  stating that she had been sexually abused by the accused on September 2, 2021.
The police arrested the accused on the same day and registered a case at the Baglung District court on December 7, 2021.
District Judge Basudev Neupane, on December 8, 2021, ordered the detention of the accused at the District Jail Baglung for a preliminary investigation.

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