The High Court referred to Explanation 4 to Section 499 IPC, which requires that an alleged imputation must lower the moral or intellectual character, professional character or credit of a person in the estimation of others for it to amount to defamation

Police said the remains were recovered from riverbanks across several downstream districts along the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli river systems. The affected districts include Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, Chitwan, Gorkha, Tanahu, Nawalparasi East and Nawalparasi West