Posted by: ne0 March 17, 2014
Should the perpetrators of Dilshova Slander face Nepal Law - Libel and Slander Act, 2016BS Nepal
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Vhootee, I understand your concern and I agree that you have a valid concern there if the whole thing had started off as an issue whereby Dilshova was accused of selling kids overseas.

Unfortunately the whole thing started off as a slanderous pursuit by the journalists involved, and not about Dilshova selling kids overseas.

Let me repeat my stance on this issue:

As you may be aware, the whole thing started with this sensationalized news:

http://nagariknews.com/feature-article/story/14204/14204

Which starts off saying:

"काठमाडौं- ‘आमाघर'को नाममा वृद्धा र अनाथ बालबालिकाको स्याहारसुसार गरेर चर्चामा आएकी समाजसेवी दिलशोभा श्रेष्ठ ‘आश्रयको आवरणमा यौन दुराचारका क्रियाकलापमा संलग्न रहेको' तथ्य फेला परेको छ। उनको आश्रममा वृद्धासहित ५३ बालबालिका छन्।
उनले राजधानीको रविभवनस्थित आफ्नो वृद्धाश्रममा रहेकाहरूलाई पैसा लिएर अर्काको घरमा काम गर्न र रात बिताउन पठाउँदै आएको नागरिकलाई प्राप्त अडियो रेकर्डबाट खुलेको छ।... "

The whole premise of this accusation is slanderous since the journalist has found her to be guilty of यौन दुराचार based on that audio recording, and the truth about that audio recording has been revealed to be a harmless conversation which was taken out of context by the journalist to create the sensationalized news.

The media is supposed to bring out information to the general mass, but when a media stoops low enough to target an old woman who's trying her best to keep old helpless people and kids off the street into her own home, with unverified, fictitious evidence, used solely to tarnish her good name and sell their paper, then it is upto the concerned people like yourselves to make your voice heard that this kind of media bullying is not something that should be tolerated in today's day and age of democracy, culpability, credibility and transparency.
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