Kathmandu, May 22
Patan High Court has given a four-year jail sentence to Prithvi Malla. The court has also levied a fine of Rs 40,000 on Malla who has been convicted of a hit and run in Budhanilakantha of Kathmandu in December 2019.
On Sunday, a division bench of judges Rajendra Kharel and Jagdish Ghimire sentenced him to four years imprisonment and a fine of 40,000, according to Registrar Thagindra Kattel.
In December 2019, Leela Devkota, who was out for a morning walk in Budhanilkanth, died after being hit by a car driven by Malla who was drunk.
The government attorney’s office had demanded Malla be sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 100,000.
In March 2022, the Kathmandu High Court convicted Malla of the crime but restricted the imprisonment to just six months along with a fine of Rs 1,000. Dissatisfied with the decision, the government attorneys then went to the high court.
When he was in judicial custody in connection with the case, in July 2020, a division bench of Supreme Court justices Sapana Pradhan Malla and Manoj Kumar Sharma released him on Rs 500,000 bail.
Even though convicted, Prithvi Malla is not in Nepal.
