Nepal Court docket Releases Rape Accused Former IPL Superstar Sandeep Lamichhane On Bail

Sandeep Lamichhane was once taken into custody in October remaining yr after a 17-year-old woman accused him of raping her in a lodge room.

Kathmandu: Nepal cricket celebrity Sandeep Lamichhane, who was once accused of raping a minor, has been launched on bail through the rustic’s best court docket on Thursday. The Patan Top Court docket ordered free up of Lamichhane with the bail of Rs 2 million, in step with the court docket resources.

Lamichhane was once taken into custody in October remaining yr after a court docket in Nepal issued a arrest warrant towards the Nepal cricket staff captain on September 8. A 17-year-old woman had alleged that Lamichhane raped her in a lodge room in Kathmandu.

A joint bench of judges Dhruvaraj Nanda and Ramesh Dhakal made up our minds to free up the previous IPL celebrity on bail of Rs 2 million, reversing the verdict of the Kathmandu district court docket. In October, Lamichhane wrote on Fb that he would “totally cooperate in all levels of the investigation and can combat a criminal fight to turn out my innocence”, earlier than being arrested.

Alternatively, Lamichhane has been barred to go away the rustic till the general verdict of the court docket within the case. Lamichhane is Nepal’s maximum high-profile cricketer, and the primary cricketer from Nepal to play within the Indian Premier League (IPL), when he made his debut for the Delhi Capitals franchise in 2018.

A wily leg-spinner, armed with a vicious googly, he was once a far sought-after cricketer in different big-ticket T20 leagues around the globe, together with the Large Bash League (BBL) in Australia, the Pakistan Tremendous League (PSL) and the CPL.

The prodigiously proficient cricketer holds the file for the arena’s second-fastest bowler to seize 50 ODI wickets and the third-fastest to race to 50 T20I wickets. Lamichhane’s remaining world look got here in August this yr, when he performed towards Kenya in a T20I stumble upon.