Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai today provided financial assistance to acid attack survivor Muskan Khatun on the occasion of his birthday. Minister Bhattarai had called Khatun, a grade nine student, to the ministry on Sunday and provided her Rs 50,000 cash to help with the study expenses. 14-year-old Khatun is a […]
The Women and Social Committee of the House of Representatives has directed Nepal government to amend existing legal provisions related to acid attack to make them more stringent in order to ensure justice to the acid attack survivors. As per the decision made by the house panel, punishment for acid attackers should be made harsher
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The Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has prepared an investigation report seeking upto 18 years of imprisonment and a fine of upto Rs 500,000 against the perpetrators involved in an acid attack incident that took place three weeks ago in Bafal of Kathmandu. Munna Ahamed, an Indian national, had thrown acid on a 22-year-old girl
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A committee, chaired by Deputy Attorney General Bishwaraj Koirala, has been formed to investigate into the import and sales distribution of acid in Nepal. The committee has been given a time period of one month to suggest the legal and institutional framework needed to monitor acid imports, sales among other acid-related regulations. According to government
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Nepal Police arrested two people, Indian national Munna Mohammad and his boss Mohammad Alam, a resident of Rautahat district, for throwing acid on a 22-year-old female from Okhaldhunga at Sitapaila in Kathmandu on Thursday evening. According to Metropolitan Police Range, Teku, the duo was arrested from Dallu area in Kathmandu at 11:00 PM yesterday, a
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Indian citizen Dilipraj Kesari, who threw acid on Bindabasini Kansakar of Hetauda, has been sentenced to eight years in prison by the Makwanpur District Court. Kesari, who attacked Kansakar with acid in broad daylight in Hetauda, was arrested after six and half years in November, 2019 from Bara district. A single bench of district judge
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