Surkhet/kathmandu, July 17 -- When the Surkhet District Government Attorney's Office filed a case on March 28 against four juveniles on charges of the gang-rape and murder of 16-year-old Inisha BK, the evidence considered definite in a case of this nature had not yet been produced.

Samples collected from Inisha's body and clothing, a condom recovered from the crime scene, and samples collected from the bodies and clothing of the four juveniles had been sent to the Nepal Police Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Kathmandu for examination. The 41-page charge sheet produced at the District Court listed 163 pieces of evidence. The laboratory's final DNA and serology reports arrived nearly two months later, on June 2.

The reports, obtain...