Lalitpur court sentences ‘high-profile’ Sushil Chataut to 18 years in jail for rape

Kathmandu, April 11: The Lalitpur District Court has convicted Sushil Chataut, an influential businessperson, of rape and sentenced him to 18 years in prison.

A single bench of District Court Judge Sita Sharma Adhikari convicted Chataut of raping a 14-year-old domestic worker.

Likewise, the bench ordered that the convict pay the victim Rs 800,000 as compensation.

This case came into the limelight last year after Chataut used his nexus with the then attorney general Khamma Bahadur Khati to pressure the government attorneys to dismiss his prosecution.

The Attorney General’s Office had even tried to take action against Sangita Thokar, the government attorney looking after the case. But Khati resigned after the end of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s term, thereby foiling the plan.