Sandeep Lamichhane, the previous captain of Nepal’s nationwide cricket workforce, was convicted on Friday of raping a minor.
A single bench of Choose Shishir Raj Dhakal handed the order on Friday following the conclusion of the ultimate hearings that began on Sunday, in keeping with the Kathmandu Submit. The Kathmandu District Courtroom on Friday convicted Lamichhane of rape.
The following listening to will decide the jail time period for the participant, the report added.
The cricketer, who was arrested after a 17-year-old woman alleged that he raped her in a lodge room in Kathmandu in August final yr, was launched on bail in January by a Nepal courtroom.
A joint bench of the Patan Excessive Courtroom 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 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 collection which additionally consists of Namibia. Lamichhane had been made conscious of the protest beforehand.
Lamichhane is 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 Massive Bash League (BBL) in Australia, the Pakistan Tremendous League (PSL) and the CPL.
He holds the file 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 yr when he performed in opposition to Kenya in a T20I encounter.
(With Company Inputs)