Justice is a dream deferred for survivors of rape and sexual violence in Nepal

When a woman went to the police station asking the police to take action against Krishna Bahadur Giri, also known as Siddhababa, for rape, the police did not file her report. Instead, they ridiculed her and asked her to stop spreading lies about the famed religious leader and asked her to leave. Following this, the woman went to the Central Investigation Bureau ( CIB ) of Nepal Police on November 24, 2019, to report the case, which has been one of the most recent well-known examples of sexual violence in Nepal.

Before she went to the CIB, Nepal Police official reached her door steps. She had hoped they were there to report the case, but instead, they tried to book her in a drug case. The aim of the police was to give her mental torture so she should not report the case and had reached her apartment acting as a businessperson.