The
Supreme Court of Nepal has upheld the decision of a Military Special Court
dismissing from service a captain of the Army who was found guilty of misusing
his official position. The captain was convicted for having sexual relations
with a junior female staffer.
The
main plank of the captain’s case was that the act was not related to the military
and was a part of his conduct out of service and hence the military should not
have interfered when there was no contravention of the military code of
conduct.
The
division bench of the Supreme Court has however ruled that the officer had
misused his social and economic position to commit the offence and the court has
upheld the conviction handed out by the Special Military Court.
The
officer had been arrested when he was taking the woman member of his staff out
of Nepal to India for an abortion.
More
details of the case are available here.
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