Janakpur High Court sentences former MPs Koiri and Sharma to five years in APF officer murder case

The court overturns an earlier acquittal of former federal lawmaker Laxmi Mahato Koiri, while reducing the life sentence previously handed to former provincial lawmaker Abhiram Sharma.

The Janakpur High Court on Wednesday sentenced former lawmakers Laxmi Mahato Koiri, and Abhiram Sharma to five years in prison in the 2015 murder of an Armed Police Force (APF) officer during the 'Madhesh movement'.