Biratnagar, May 16 -- In a new revelation regarding the May 3 shooting of a girl in Damak, relatives have claimed that the assailant shot her after she declined to withdraw a two-year-old rape complaint filed against him.

Erika Gajmer was returning to her rented room in ward 5 of Damak Municipality, Jhapa, after she wrote her Grade 12 board exam on May 3. A masked man, wearing a helmet, ambushed her when she approached the Senior Citizen Building in ward 5 of Damak. The man dragged her in the busy street and attacked her, said police.

According to Erika, Amit Kumar Yadav who allegedly raped her two years ago, ambushed and attacked her while she was returning from the exam centre. "He put a gun to my head and demanded that I withdraw the...