Former speaker of Nepal's House of Representatives, the Lower House of Parliament, Krishna Bahadur Mahara has been acquitted by the Kathmandu District Court. He was accused in attempt to rape case.

District Judge Ambar Raj Poudel acquitted Mahara from all the charges on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

After the court verdict Mahara was released from Dillibazaar central prison in Kathmandu this afternoon.

He was arrested on October 6 last year after a woman employee of the Parliament Secretariat had lodged police complaint accusing Mahara of attempting to rape her.