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Maina Sunuwar Case: SC orders Kavre district court to produce documents
The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered Kavre District Court to produce documents regarding the landmark verdict on 2004 Maina Sunuwar murder case.The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered Kavre District Court to produce documents regarding the landmark verdict on 2004 Maina Sunuwar murder case.
A division bench of justices Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana and Tanka Bahadur Moktan had issued the order on Sunday, according to the official website of SC.
Captain Saroj Regmi had filed a writ petition on behalf of Nepal Army (NA) on September 22 demanding that the verdict of Kavre District Court on Maina Sunuwar's case be annuled.
The writ petition filed on September 22 has named the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the Office of the Attorney General, the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction, Kavre District Court and the mother of the late Maina as defendants.
On April 17 the Kavre District Court had awarded life imprisonment to three Nepal Army officials for the murder of Maina Sunuwar during decade-long armed conflict.
A single bench of district court Judge Medini Prasad Poudyal had convicted the then Colonel at Birendra Peace Operations Training Centre in Panchkhal Babi Khatri, Captains Amit Pun and Sunil Adhikari for the insurgency-era murder of Sunuwar and pronounced life terms.
The then Major Niranjan Basnet, however, was acquitted of all charges citing that 'he was only following orders'.
Fifteen-year-old Sunuwar was arrested by Nepal Army personnel on February 17, 2004 from her home in Kharelthok, Kavrepalanchok, and brought to the Birendra Peace Operations Training Centre in Panchkhal. She later died after severe torture inside the army barracks.