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Rape-accused cricketer Lamichhane again on Nepal squad

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KATHMANDU: Celebrity Nepalese cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane, who’s unfastened on bail whilst going through rape fees, will take the pitch on the upcoming Global Cup League 2 tri-series, Cricket Nepal has introduced.

Lamichhane is accused of raping a 17-year-old lady in a Kathmandu lodge room remaining August.

The Cricket Affiliation of Nepal published the 22-year-old’s inclusion at the squad for the February 14-21 house collection towards Namibia and Scotland in a submit on its professional Twitter account.

The verdict was once broadly anticipated after the frame lifted the celebrity spin-bowler’s suspension previous this month.

“The board had taken disciplinary motion towards him and suspended him. The brand new choice to boost the suspension will permit him to play video games,” Cricket Affiliation of Nepal president Chatur Bahadur Chand informed AFP on February 1.

An afternoon previous, Nepal’s lawyer common had appealed the verdict to unfastened Lamichhane on a bond of 2 million rupees ($15,400). He were in custody since his October 6 arrest at Kathmandu airport.

“Now we have requested the Ultimate Courtroom to overturn the prime courtroom’s choice to unencumber him on bail,” Sanjiv Raj Regmi, a spokesman on the Administrative center of the Legal professional Normal, informed AFP on the time.”

An accused of any prison offence that would result in the jail time period of greater than 3 years will have to keep in custody.”

Lamichhane were a poster boy for the upward push of cricket in Nepal, which won one-day world standing in 2018.

His large destroy got here when he was once snapped up by way of the Delhi Capitals for the money-spinning Indian Premier League in 2018, and he has since been Nepal’s maximum sought-after cricketer.

Government issued an arrest warrant towards him in September whilst he was once away enjoying within the Caribbean Premier League.

Lamichhane, who has maintained his innocence, was once suspended as Nepal’s cricket captain after the arrest warrant was once issued.

KATHMANDU: Celebrity Nepalese cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane, who’s unfastened on bail whilst going through rape fees, will take the pitch on the upcoming Global Cup League 2 tri-series, Cricket Nepal has introduced.

Lamichhane is accused of raping a 17-year-old lady in a Kathmandu lodge room remaining August.

The Cricket Affiliation of Nepal published the 22-year-old’s inclusion at the squad for the February 14-21 house collection towards Namibia and Scotland in a submit on its professional Twitter account.

The verdict was once broadly anticipated after the frame lifted the celebrity spin-bowler’s suspension previous this month.

“The board had taken disciplinary motion towards him and suspended him. The brand new choice to boost the suspension will permit him to play video games,” Cricket Affiliation of Nepal president Chatur Bahadur Chand informed AFP on February 1.

An afternoon previous, Nepal’s lawyer common had appealed the verdict to unfastened Lamichhane on a bond of 2 million rupees ($15,400). He were in custody since his October 6 arrest at Kathmandu airport.

“Now we have requested the Ultimate Courtroom to overturn the prime courtroom’s choice to unencumber him on bail,” Sanjiv Raj Regmi, a spokesman on the Administrative center of the Legal professional Normal, informed AFP on the time.”

An accused of any prison offence that would result in the jail time period of greater than 3 years will have to keep in custody.”

Lamichhane were a poster boy for the upward push of cricket in Nepal, which won one-day world standing in 2018.

His large destroy got here when he was once snapped up by way of the Delhi Capitals for the money-spinning Indian Premier League in 2018, and he has since been Nepal’s maximum sought-after cricketer.

Government issued an arrest warrant towards him in September whilst he was once away enjoying within the Caribbean Premier League.

Lamichhane, who has maintained his innocence, was once suspended as Nepal’s cricket captain after the arrest warrant was once issued.