Citizens’ suffering in the face of pending cases highlights urgent call for reform

In late June, Indramaya (name changed) emerged from Kathmandu’s District Police Range. The case that her ex-husband had filed some 28 years ago had finally concluded.

The case is a complicated one. Her ex-husband, Suk Bahadur filed a case in 1996 accusing Indramaya of carrying another person’s child after a stillbirth in 1996. Suk Bahadur and his mother even threw Indramaya out of the house which made things even worse.