A court docket in Nepal on Thursday launched cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane on bail, greater than three months after he was arrested on rape fees, officers mentioned.
According to court docket officers, a joint bench of Patan High Court Justices Dhruvraj Nanda and Ramesh Dhakal determined to launch Lamichhane on a surety of Rs 20 lakh, overturning the Kathmandu district court docket’s determination.
However, 22-year-old Lamichhane has been barred from leaving the nation pending the ultimate determination of the court docket within the case.
On 8 September, a Nepal court docket issued an arrest warrant for nationwide cricket staff captain Lamichhane after a 17-year-old lady alleged that he raped her in a resort room in Kathmandu.
Lamichhane denied the allegations, saying he was harmless, was taking part within the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) when the warrant was issued, and was additionally the captain of the Nepal cricket staff.
Lamichhane wrote on Facebook that he would “cooperate fully at all stages of the investigation and fight the legal battle to prove his innocence”.
After reaching Nepal on 6 October, he was arrested and despatched to judicial custody.
Lamichhane 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 wily leg-spinner, armed with a vicious googly, he was a extremely anticipated cricketer within the Big Bash League (BBL) in Australia, the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and different big-ticket T20 leagues world wide. Cpl.
The prodigiously gifted cricketer holds the file because the second quickest bowler on this planet to take 50 ODI wickets and the third quickest to 50 T20I wickets. Lamichhane’s final worldwide look got here in August this yr when he performed in a T20I in opposition to Kenya.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
