District Court has acquitted 32-year-old Shivaram Khanga of Maina Kaderi VDC-8 of rape charges on February 4. Khanga was accused of raping a 25-year-old woman on November 2 at her place. He was cleared by District Judge Nabaraj Dahal saying that the charge cannot be established as the plaintiff and witnesses did not come to the court to record the statement. Khanga was in Rajbiraj Prison since November 27 on remand after the order by the same judge. The woman had filed a complaint at Area Police Office Kanchanrup on November 3 saying that Khanga had raped her at her home after gaging her with his hand while her children were sleeping beside her. Medical checkup of the woman and the accused was conducted at Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital, Rajbiraj on November 3.