Evidence builds against Sandeep Lamichhane. Sandeep Lamichhane, the captain of Nepal’s national cricket team, was the subject of a rape complaint, the District Police Range Kathmandu announced on its official Facebook page on Wednesday.
The District Police Range not only disclosed the specifics of the alleged crime’s location but also the name of the laboratory that processed the victim’s vaginal swab sample.
Mohna Ansari, a former member of the National Human Rights Commission, is one person who has questioned the police’s decision to make the details of the case public.
The way the hotel where the incident happened and the time it happened were mentioned in the post, according to Ansari, “can lead to tampering with evidence, which is vital to take the case forward.”
It raises issues with the case itself.
Disclosure of the incident’s specifics exposes the case to a variety of social and political pressures, experts say, raising concerns about the investigation’s ethics and fairness. Evidence builds against Sandeep Lamichhane
“The hotel is a scene of a crime.
The police ran the risk of tampering with important evidence by disclosing the crime scene, according to Rashtra Bimochan Timalsena, assistant director of the National Law College.
However, Dinesh Raj Mainali, a spokesman for the District Police Range of Kathmandu, claims that the police disclosed the location of the hotel where the alleged crime allegedly occurred in order to expedite police procedure.
According to Nepal Police spokesperson Tek Prasad Rai, a 17-year-old girl filed a complaint against Lamichhane at the Gaushala police circle on Tuesday, accusing him of coercing her into having sex with him in front of her guardian.
The victim was taken to a crisis management center by the police for a medical examination, according to a Facebook post from the District Police Range of Kathmandu.As of Wednesday night, the medical report had not yet been received.
Sandeep Lamichhane, the captain of the Nepali national cricket team, has been accused of rape by a minor.
Following the complaint, the police took her for a medical checkup,” Rai claimed.
The victim and Lamichhane, according to the police, met on the social media site Snapchat. They became friends after making a connection.The teen was asked to meet Lamichhane.
According to the police complaint, Lamichhane picked up the victim on the evening of August 21 and the two then drove to Nagarkot.
The victim repeatedly requested to be taken back to her hostel in Kathmandu while in Nagarkot, according to the complaint.
Later that evening, they departed Nagarkot for Kathmandu and checked into a hotel there because the hostel she was staying at had closed.
The victim claims that Lamichhane violated her sexually at the hotel they stayed at after returning to Kathmandu.
The victim and cricketer Lamichhane had stayed in hotels in Nagarkot and Kathmandu on August 21. The police confiscated the hotels’ CCTV footage.
Bharat Bohara, the District Police Range Kathmandu’s Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), confirmed that Lamichhane and the victim had both checked into the hotel.
According to Bohora, who spoke to the Post, “CCTV footage shows that Lamichhane was with the girl who has accused him of raping her in the hotel room.”
The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN), the nation’s governing body for cricket, declined to comment on whether it would discipline the captain of the team.
CAN President Chatur Bahadur Chand was unavailable for comment, but General Secretary Prashant Bikram Malla said on late Wednesday night that President Chand had just arrived in Kathmandu from Dhangadhi and that they would talk about the matter later in the evening.
To compete in the Caribbean Premier League, Lamichhane is currently in Trinidad & Tobago. He competed for his country in the ODI and T20 series against Kenya.
The captain of the national team left Nepal on August 22. The incidents allegedly occurred the night before and the morning of the day he left for Kenya.
