Mahara acquitted citing victim was under depression medications

The Kathmandu District Court based acquittal of former speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara in the attempt to rape case on the fact that the complainant was under depression medications and later turned hostile.

The full text of the verdict by the bench of Justice Amar Raj Paudel on February 17 has mentioned these things along with the lack of evidence. "There is no ground to establish offense that the accused went to the rented apartment of victim complainant in the evening on September 29, 2019, drank alcohol and assaulted her and attempted to rape her as the victim in her statement has said she suffers from depression and was unconscious on the day and time of the said incident due to medicines and alcohol, don't know whom she talked to on the phone and what she did, and the defendant did not come to her apartment,'" the full text states. "Defendant Krishna Bahadur Mahara deems to get acquittal from the charge claim in lack of evidence."