KATHMANDU: The government attorney office on Thursday filed a review petition against at the Supreme Court’s verdict to cut short the jail term handed down to former Armed Police Force (APF) DIG Ranjan Koirala.
The petition was filed on the same day Koirala, who spent eight years in jail on charges of murdering his wife, was released from jail.
The public prosecutor filed the petition for review of the verdict after the Attorney General’s Office decided to file the petition.
Koirala, who was earlier convicted of murdering his wife, was released this morning.
It should be noted that the Kathmandu District Court had handed down a 20-year jail sentence to Koirala, and the Appellate Court had upheld it.
The SC, however, cut short Koirala’s sentence to eight and a half years responding to an appeal filed by the convict.
The SC division bench comprising Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Ranan and Justice Tej Bahadur KC had said that Koirala had to be released to take care of his children.
Former DIG Ranjan Koirala who was incarcerated on the charge of murdering his wife has been released from Dilli Bazaar jail on Thursday.
Jailer Ganesh Acharya has confirmed that Koirala has been released from Dilli Bazaar jail.
On January 22, 2012, Koirala had been arrested from Thankot while he was returning to Kathmandu from Narayangadh.
Koirala had been serving a jail-term since then.
District Court and Appellate Court had slapped him with a life-imprisonment on the charge of murdering his wife Geeta.
Koirala has been freed from jail today after Supreme Court on June 29, 2020, reduced his sentence to eight years and six months, waiving 11 years and six months.
A joint bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana and Justice Tej Bahadur KC reduced the jail-term of Koirala arguing that his life-imprisonment would adversely impact the up-keep and education of his minor sons.
According to the complaint stated in the murder case filed at the court, on January 11, 2012, Geeta Dhakal had died after being pushed by her husband in a dispute that cropped up over financial issue.
Koirala had murdered his wife in cold blood and destroyed evidence by burning her body parts.
District Court, Kathmandu on April 20, 2014, issued a verdict sentencing Koirala to life in prison, along with the confiscation of all his properties.
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