Police arrested Bijaya Shrestha a 40-year-old man of Lishang Khupar rural municipality-5, on the charge of sexually and physically assaulting a 36-year-old woman on December 6. According to the victim, the accused sexually assaulted her on December 2, while she was out to see the festival in the local Jaleshwor temple. The complaint was lodged on December 5. According to the victim's father, the victim was injured when she resisted the sexual assault, and her health is being treated in the Norvic hospital, in Kathmandu.