Sandeep Lamichhane, Ex-Nepal Captain And Former Delhi Capitals Star, Convicted Of Raping A Minor | Cricket News

Nepal’s former nationwide cricket workforce captain Sandeep Lamichhane was on Friday convicted by a courtroom of raping a minor. In January, Nepal courtroom launched Lamichhane who was arrested after a 17-year-old lady alleged that he raped her in a resort room in Kathmandu in August final 12 months. Lamichhane, 23, is Nepal’s most 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 single bench of Judge Shishir Raj Dhakal handed the order on Friday following the conclusion of the ultimate hearings that began on Sunday, the Kathmandu Post reported. The Kathmandu District Court on Friday convicted Lamichhane of rape. The subsequent listening to will decide the jail time period for the senior member of the nationwide workforce, the report stated.

Lamichhne is at the moment out on bail. On January 12, the Patan High Court ordered the discharge of the cricketer. Responding to a overview petition filed by Lamichhane, a joint bench of judges Dhruva Raj Nanda and Ramesh Dahal ordered Lamichhane’s launch on a bail bond of Rs 2 million with circumstances.

The Kathmandu District Court on November 4, 2022, had handed the order to ship Lamichhane to the Sundhara-based central jail after a detention listening to. Lamichhane had moved the excessive courtroom difficult the order.

The Kathmandu District Attorney’s Office filed a case towards Lamichhane accusing him of raping the lady on August 21.

The minor had filed a case towards the cricketer on September 6 on the Metropolitan Police Circle, Gaushala.

Nepal Police arrested him on October 6 at Tribhuvan International Airport on his return from Trinidad & Tobago the place he performed within the Caribbean Premier League.

Through the cost sheet, the district lawyer had demanded compensation from Lamichhane for the sufferer’s alleged bodily and psychological torture. After the cost sheet was filed, Lamichhane’s checking account and property have been frozen.

A wily leg-spinner, armed with a vicious googly, he was a a lot sought-after cricketer in different big-ticket T20 leagues all over the world, together with the Big Bash League (BBL) in Australia, the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and the CPL.

The prodigiously gifted cricketer holds the document 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.