A Nepal court docket on Thursday launched cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane on bail, greater than three months after he was arrested on rape expenses, officers mentioned. A joint bench of the Patan High Court judges Dhruvaraj Nanda and Ramesh Dhakal determined to launch Lamichhane on bail of Rs 2 million, reversing the choice of the Kathmandu district court docket, in accordance with the court docket officers.

However, 22-year-old Lamichhane has been barred from leaving the nation till the ultimate verdict of the court docket within the case, they mentioned.

On September 8, a court docket in Nepal issued an arrest warrant for nationwide cricket staff captain Lamichhane after a 17-year-old lady alleged that he raped her in a resort room in Kathmandu.

Lamichhane denied the fees, saying he’s harmless, When the warrant was issued, he was collaborating within the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), and was additionally Nepal cricket staff’s captain.

Lamichhane wrote on Facebook that he would “fully cooperate in all stages of the investigation and will fight a legal battle to prove my innocence”.

After his arrival in Nepal on October 6, he was arrested and despatched to judicial custody.

Lamichhane is Nepal’s most high-profile cricketer, and the primary cricketer from Nepal to play within the Indian Premier League (IPL) when he made his debut for the Delhi Capitals franchise in 2018.

A wily leg-spinner, armed with a vicious googly, he was a a lot sought-after cricketer in different big-ticket T20 leagues world wide, together with the Big Bash League (BBL) in Australia, the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and the CPL.

The prodigiously gifted cricketer holds the document for the world’s second-fastest bowler to seize 50 ODI wickets and the third-fastest to race to 50 T20I wickets.

Lamichhane’s final worldwide look got here in August this 12 months, when he performed in opposition to Kenya in a T20I encounter.

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