Kathmandu, March 27 -- Angur GC, a former officer of the Nepal Police Central Investigation Bureau, who was charged with evidence tampering and torturing an innocent man to extract false confession in the Nirmala Pant rape and murder case, was released on bail by the Kanchanpur District Court on Wednesday.

"GC has been released on a combined bail of Rs900,000. Rs500,000 in torture case and Rs400,000 in evidence tampering case," Hari Krishna Awasthi, the court registrar, told the Post.

GC had appeared before the court on March 24. With the court's order to release GC, all eight police officials indicted in the Pant murder case are now out of custody.

On March 6, the Kanchanpur District Attorney's Office had filed a case against the then...