Nepal cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane has been sentenced to eight years of jail after being confirmed responsible of rape. A single bench of Choose Shishir Raj Dhakal handed the order to the Kathmandu District Court docket on Wednesday.
The 23-year-old additionally has been slapped with a nice of Rs 300,000(INR 1,87,148) and is ordered to pay Rs 200,000(INR 1,24,765) to the sufferer’s household stated Chandra Prasad Panthi, data officer on the courtroom in response to The Kathmandu Put up.
The cricketer, who was arrested after a lady alleged that he raped her in a lodge room in Kathmandu in August final 12 months, was launched on bail in January by a Nepal courtroom.
A joint bench of the Patan Excessive Court docket judges Dhruvaraj Nanda and Ramesh Dhakal determined to launch Lamichhane on bail of Rs 2 million, reversing the choice of the Kathmandu district courtroom. The 23-year-old was additionally barred from leaving the nation till the ultimate verdict of the courtroom within the case.
In February, the Scotland cricket group gamers had refused to shake Lamichhane’s arms after their 3-wicket loss to Nepal.
The Scottish gamers shook arms with each Nepal participant, besides Lamichhane as a part of a silent protest to the spinner’s continued presence and participation within the ICC’s Cricket World Cup League 2 collection which additionally consists of Namibia. Lamichhane had been made conscious of the protest beforehand.
Lamichhane was the primary cricketer from Nepal to play within the Indian Premier League (IPL) when he made his debut for the Delhi Capitals in 2018.
The leg-spinner was additionally a a lot sought-after cricketer in different big-ticket T20 leagues all over the world, together with the Large Bash League (BBL) in Australia, the Pakistan Tremendous League (PSL) and the CPL.
He holds the report for the world’s second-fastest bowler to seize 50 ODI wickets and the third-fastest to race to 50 T20I wickets.
Lamichhane’s final worldwide look got here in August this 12 months when he performed towards Kenya in a T20I encounter.