The police have provided security to staffer at the parliament secretariat Roshni Shahi who alleged Krishna Bahadur Mahara of rape.
An assistant sub-inspector and a female police have been deployed on Wednesday for security of Shahi and also to keep an eye on her, according to a police source. The police point that Shahi had consumed poison last year and had to stay at the intensive care unit (ICU) for a week.
Shahi herself has posted a Facebook status revealing that police arrived at her place at seven in the morning.
Another police source informed that a police team again reached her rented apartment in Tinkune on Wednesday for additional investigation. "We are investigating from day one," the source claimed. "We have also sent a team to her apartment to boost investigation."
Police had also gone to the apartment Tuesday afternoon and collected the bottle of whiskey Shahi says Mahara brought, glass and the broken spectacles of Mahara.
A joint team of Metropolitan Police Range Kathmandu, Metropolitan Police Circle, New Baneshwore, Metropolitan Police Crime Division reached the apartment in Tinkune near Parisdanda again on Tuesday after a team from Baneswhore Circle visited immediately following the incident Sunday night.
The collected items will be sent to forensic laboratory to test for Mahara's fingerprints.
Shahi, however, changed her statement later Tuesday stating that Mahara did not rape her and just misbehaved.
Mahara has been accused of raping Shahi on Sunday. She claimed an inebriated Mahara reached her rented apartment with a bottle of whiskey when there was no one else in the apartment Sunday night and raped her.
"Editorial Note: We have decided to use the name of victim after she has publicly spoken through a video interview after the incident)
