Nepal leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichhane, on Wednesday, was acquitted of rape costs in a case courting again to 2022 after he was accused of assault by an 18-year-old girl.
Lamicchane, who was convicted of rape by the Kathmandu District Courtroom in January and sentenced to eight years in jail, was confirmed harmless within the Nepal Excessive Courtroom and freed of all the costs raised in opposition to him.
“The district court docket’s verdict has been overturned, Sandeep Lamichhane has been acquitted,” setopati.com quoted the Excessive Courtroom’s deputy registrar and spokesperson, Bimal Parajuli, as saying.
“He needed to be cleared and the excessive court docket has set him free. He was not responsible,” Sabita Bhadari Baral, a lawyer for the participant instructed Reuters after the court docket verdict, particulars of that are but to be launched.
The decision signifies that Lamicchane, who wasn’t picked within the provisional squad named by Nepal for the T20 World Cup, may make the minimize but with the deadline from ICC for closing squad submission being Could 25.
After being sentenced to jail by the District Courtroom earlier this 12 months, and instructed to pay compensation to the alleged sufferer, the cricketer was granted bail of Rs 2 million, reversing the choice of the Kathmandu district court docket. The 23-year-old was additionally barred from leaving the nation till the ultimate verdict of the court docket within the case.
In February, the Scotland cricket workforce 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 sequence which additionally contains 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 around the globe, together with the Huge Bash League (BBL) in Australia, the Pakistan Tremendous League (PSL) and the CPL.
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