Victim Aarti Rawal to Resume Hunger Strike Over Judge Bhuwan Giri's Reinstatement

Kathmandu. Victim Aarti Rawal is going to start a hunger strike again, alleging that Judge Bhuwan Giri has been reinstated without being acquitted of the case against him.

On Thursday, Rawal, who organized a press conference at Dialogue Dabali in the capital, demanded the immediate suspension of Giri, the then judge of the Dailekh District Court.

Victim Rawal alleged that Giri was reinstated by the Office of the Attorney General by deciding not to proceed with the case while the case was ongoing in the courts of all three tiers. Rawal claims that reinstating the perpetrator Giri without her receiving justice through the abuse of power and authority is a mockery of the rule of law. She said, 'Judge Bhuwan Giri should be immediately suspended as the rape case against him is sub-judice in the Supreme Court.'

While stating that people's hope in the court has been diminishing in the past, Rawal said, 'If the Balen government has given a signal for the purification of the judiciary, then it should show it by immediately suspending Bhuwan Giri, and the Supreme Court should examine every piece of evidence in my case file and deliver justice to me.'

Accusing the court of being influenced by power in the past, Rawal questioned, 'Don't laws apply to judges? Why is a criminal judge being protected by the court, which is said to be impartial? Why the reinstatement without acquittal from the courts of all three tiers? Does he even fit to hold a position like a judge based on morality?'