Legal Remedy for Domestic Violence in Nepal

• Defendant will bear the expenses of the medical treatment of the victim
• Compensation according to the degree of pain suffered by the victim.
• Fine: Three thousand rupees to twenty-five thousand rupees
• Imprisonment: six months of prisonment or both
• Attempts or abettors are liable for half punishment of the perpetrator.
• On each repetition of domestic violence, in each time the punishment will be doubled.

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