Incident Reports

Court Slaps One Month Sentence for Turning Hostile

2014-11-18

Lumbini, Kapilbastu, Buddhabhumi

Kapilvastu, Adalat ma bayan fereko arop ma 1 mahina kaid. District court of Kapilvastu has sentenced a woman of Kapilvastu municipality-14 for one month and fined her Rs 3,000 on November 17 on charge of changing her statement. The court issued the sentence stating that the woman's statement while testifying on September 5 was different from the complaint she filed when she accused her husband of raping her 7-year-old daughter. A single bench of district court judge Achyut Prasad Bhandari convicted the women after the women told the court that she filed a false complaint after her husband beat her repeatedly. The district court said that the verdict was the first of its kind when someone has been sentenced for turning hostile.

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