Kathmandu, November 26
Former Prime Minister and Naya Shakti Party Nepal chief Baburam Bhattarai has provided Rs 100,000 to the parents of Nirmala Pant, the 13-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in Kanchanpur of farwestern Nepal around four months ago.
Bhattarai says his cadres living in Australia collected the fund for the Pant family as the parents are fighting against the state for justice.
The leader went to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital on Monday and handed over the money to the victim’s father, Yagya Raj Pant.
Yagya Raj is currently undergoing treatment at the hospital after he reportedly developed some symptoms of mental illness while staging an indefinite sit-in in Mahendranagar.
On the occasion, Bhattarai said he was in solidarity with the victim’s family as Nirmala Pant was the ‘daughter of everyone’.
