Kathmandu, Balatkar bidit nyaye khojdai. Puja Bohara (name changed), 17, who was gang raped in her home district of Baitadi three years ago, wants revolutionary changes in Nepal’s criminal justice system so that victims can get justice. She alleged that she was drugged and raped by Sagar Bhatta and Amar Awasthi of Baitadi. The alleged rapists were convicted by Baitadi District Court and slapped 13 years of jail term but acquitted by the Appellate Court, Mahendranagar. The victim said she felt insecure after their acquittal. She said she had lodged an FIR against the two and the district court convicted the accused on the basis of her deposition in the court, medical examination report and other circumstantial evidences. “Does their acquittal mean that I lodged a false FIR? If so, I should be punished, otherwise they should be immediately arrested,” she said. Today she met former prime minister and UCPN-M leader Baburam Bhattarai and sought his help to get justice. After the meeting, Bhattarai wrote on his Facebook wall that he sobbed for the first time yesterday when he read her heart wrenching story in a newspaper. “I became more emotional today when I met the girl at my residence and when she called me ‘father.’ She is committed to struggling until she succeeds in getting the guilty convicted and becoming a lawyer to help other rape victims. I express my commitment to do everything to ensure justice for her and I expect assistance of all in this regard,” Bhattarai wrote on Facebook. Bhattarai’s secretariat latter issued a release stating he telephoned Chief Justice Ram Kumar Prasad Shah and urged him to carry out investigation through Judicial Council on the two judges of Appellate Court who struck down the lower court’s conviction. Bhattarai phoned Law and Justice Minister Narhari Acharya to do the needful to ensure justice through the JC and the government. A source at the JC said Minister Acharya informed the JC about the case. “We will look into it and see what we can do within our jurisdiction,” the source said. He, however, said the case was sub judice. Attorney General Baburam Kunwar said his office had filed an appeal at the Supreme Court on December 7 and since the case was sub judice he could not comment further. “We have filed an appeal at the SC because we felt that justice was not done to the victim in the case,” Kunwar added.