Convicted Nepalese to be acquitted

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Govinda Prasad Mainali and his wife Radha wave at their home in Kathmandu on Oct. 29, 2012, as his retrial in a high-profile murder case began the same day at the Tokyo High Court. Japanese prosecutors said at the court in the retrial that the Nepalese man convicted of killing a Japanese woman in 1997 is not guilty, making his acquittal certain.

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