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Alleged rape of woman in quarantine facility riles lawmakers 



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Kathmandu, June 16 : The National Assembly (NA) members protested the alleged rape of a woman in a quarantine facility based in Martyrs Memorial Secondary School in Lamki Chuha of Kailali district and demanded actions against the guilty.    
Airing her views in a zero hour of the Upper House session today, Nepal Communist Party (NCP) lawmaker Dil Kumari Rawal Thapa (Parbati) condemned the gang rape on a woman in the COVID quarantine.    
Seeking an investigation against the case, she called for stern againsts those found guilty in the crime.    
She took time to demand a separate quarantine facility for women with the availability of women health workers and security force.    
Mahesh Kumar Mahara representing the same party stressed that perpetrators deserved the maximum punishment.    
Another member from the same party Maya Prasad Sharma drew the government's attentions towards bringing the body of Bir Bahadur Kami from Jajarkot who had died two weeks ago in Malaysia.    
Prakash Pantha of Nepali Congress briefed the session that quarantine facilities across the country were poorly managed.    
 "The incident of alleged rape reported in the Kailali's quarantine was highly condemnable,'' he described, seeking stern action against the guilty. The lawmaker demanded the quality improvement of those quarantine centers failing to meet the set standard.