Ram Bahadur Bomjon: Supreme Court appeal pending after High Court acquittal
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Evidence status
Active investigation
Authority role
self-presented ascetic and guru who led an ashram community
Organization
Maitri Dharma ashram community
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The charging record concerns a minor who entered Bomjon's ashram as a young follower and lived there as an ani, or female renunciant. Prosecutors alleged that Bomjon abused her while exercising guru authority within the residential ashram. The spiritual relationship and institution supplied access and dependency; the allegation itself remains unresolved while the government's appeal is pending.
- Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
- Institutional obedience or isolation
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2024-07-01 · conviction and sentence
Sarlahi District Court, Nepal. The district court convicted Bomjon of child sexual abuse, sentenced him to 10 years in prison and ordered Rs 500,000 in compensation. That judgment was later vacated in full on appeal.
2025-03-19 · acquittal and dismissal of charge sheet
Janakpur High Court, Nepal, cases 081-CS-0216 and 081-CS-0304. The High Court vacated the conviction, dismissed the charge sheet and acquitted Bomjon because it held that the case was filed outside the limitation period under the law in force when the alleged conduct occurred. The court said that this threshold ruling made a merits analysis unnecessary.
2025-08-19 · government appeal pending
Supreme Court of Nepal. The Office of the Attorney General appealed the acquittal, arguing that the High Court applied the limitation rules incorrectly. A May 2026 report continued to identify the child-sexual-abuse appeal as pending; no later disposition was located.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- spiritual-teacher authority over a minor resident disciple
- ashram residence and dependency
- alleged sexual abuse
Cited record
Sources
- court opinion appellate judgment Ram Bahadur Bomjon alias Ram Lal Bomjon v. Government of Nepal, cases 081-CS-0216 and 081-CS-0304, Janakpur High Court (Mar. 19, 2025; certified Apr. 17, 2025).
The appellate judgment records the protected complainant's minor status and residence as an ani in Bomjon's ashram, the allegations and charge, the district conviction and sentence, both appeals, and the High Court's limitation ruling vacating the conviction and dismissing the charge sheet without reaching the merits.
- court and prosecutor sourced reporting supreme court appeal Setopati, 'Appeal filed against decision to acquit Ram Bahadur Bomjon of child sexual abuse' (Aug. 19, 2025).
Contemporaneous reporting quotes the Supreme Court's information officer and the Office of the Attorney General on receipt of the appeal, identifies the limitation issue, and accurately states the vacated district sentence and High Court acquittal.
- current local reporting pending appeal status check Artha Sarokar, 'Ram Bahadur Bomjon acquitted of money laundering case' (May 3, 2026).
The report is used only for its current-status statement that the separate child-sexual-abuse case remained pending in the Supreme Court in May 2026. This record does not incorporate or characterize the unrelated money-laundering proceeding.
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- https://lktcdn2.prixacdn.net/media/pdf_upload/ram-bahadur-bamjan_faisala.pdf Corpus classification: court-opinion; evidentiary role: appellate-judgment. SHA-256 2671850129e3d6e26c2887f917cf32e9b19d0ecc76291588315261e00df47162
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- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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- https://en.setopati.com/social/165045 Corpus classification: court-and-prosecutor-sourced-reporting; evidentiary role: supreme-court-appeal. SHA-256 ccd0a3c3c4285cba8f917e87adeb7ce86c25ca9f5ac1c28b7e4b9f6ecd558625
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- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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- https://english.arthasarokar.com/2026/05/ram-bahadur-bomjan-acquitted-of-money-laundering-case-2.html Corpus classification: current-local-reporting; evidentiary role: pending-appeal-status-check. SHA-256 7e135dca304050731013359df4a5db9da9f409eca2b20aeafbee548f80615059
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- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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