Kanchanpur, July 30 -- The Kanchanpur District Court has acquitted eight police officers, including then Superintendent of Police Dilliraj Bista, for their alleged involvement in torturing suspects and destroying evidence related to July 2018 rape and murder of Nirmala Pant.

The single bench of Judge Gopal Prasad Bastola on Thursday acquitted Bista, DSP duo Angur GC and Gyan Bahadur Sethi and Inspector Ekendra Khadka.

[Read: Everything you should know about the Nirmala Pant rape and murder case

Khadak Bista, the brother of Dilip Bista who was presented by police as the prime suspect in the rape and murder of the 13-year-old, had filed a case against the four officers charging them of torturing Dilip to extract false confession.

The co...