Japan government to compensate $792,000 to Mainali

Kathmandu, May 24 – The Japanese government has decided to provide compensation to  45 year old Govinda Prasad Mainali who served 15 years in a jail in Japan after being convicted in 1997 of rape and murder, was acquitted by the Tokyo High Court on June 7, 2012, following a retrial.

 

Tokyo District Court directed the Japanese government to compensate 68 million yen (approx. $792,000) to Mainali for putting him in a jail for wrong claim.

 

 

Mainali, who went to Japan to work in a restaurant, was first arrested in 2000 on charges of overstaying. Two years later, Japanese authorities pressed him with charges of rape and murder that had taken place near Mainali’s residence in 1997.

 

Mainali never confessed to the crimes. Instead, he kept on fighting, calling on his friends outside to rescue him as soon as possible.