Sandeep Lamichhane sentenced to eight years in jail for rape

Nepal leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichhane is all set to face a jail term of eight years. According to The Kathmandu Post, the verdict was announced by the Kathmandu District Court on Wednesday (January 10) through a single bench of judge Shishir Raj Dhakal.

Aside from the discipline, the previous Nepal skipper has likewise been slapped a fine of Rs.3 lakh and has been told to pay Rs.2 lakh as pay to the person in question.

It was in September 2022 that the casualty had held up a body of evidence against Lamicchane, blaming the cricketer for assault in August 2021. Following quite a while of preliminary and examination, Lamicchane was at long last sentenced for the wrongdoing on December 29, 2023. It was then concluded that the level of discipline would be declared on January 10, 2024.

The case had its portion of high points and low points as the underlying cases by the survivor of having been a minor at the hour of episode were suppressed by the court. Lamicchane, in the interim, was captured after his return from the 2022 Caribbean Head Association and the leg-spinner moved to the high court, testing the region court which had passed a request for sending Lamicchane to the Sundhara-based Focal Prison.

Preliminary and examination went on however Lamicchane's developments were confined. He was additionally hailed from voyaging abroad and furthermore needed to illuminate the police ahead of time assuming that he wished to get out of Kathmandu. Notwithstanding, there was brief help for Lamicchane as the High Court had decided for the cricketer as for the limitations that were eventually lifted. It implied that Lamicchane could keep on playing cricket and he highlighted for Nepal as well as in establishment associations through 2023.