Judicial custody of Mahara extended by seven days

Kathmandu, Oct 24 : The Kathmandu District Court has extended the judicial custody of outgoing Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara by seven days.

A single bench of Justice Sudarshan Raj Pandey allowed police to keep Mahara under judicial custody until October 31, according to records keeper at the court Ananda Prasad Shrestha.

According to Shrestha, the court has ordered Mahara to give blood for DNA test. Mahara was first remanded to judicial custody on October 6, after a woman employee of the Parliament Secretariat filed a complaint of sexual harassment against the then Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR).

Mahara resigned soon after the woman alleged him of sexual assault. Mahara is under custody at the Metropolitan Police Range, Singha Durbar.