The “Judgment” handed down to a woman who had been in a relationship with a man. The death of a Nepalese man in Chiba, Japan: The judgment on the woman he was dating.
“There is little to consider in the circumstances or motive for his death.
On March 10, the Chiba District Court heard the verdict of Mami Asaka, 32, who was charged with assisting the suicide of her boyfriend, Chantar Badal, a Nepalese man who was 21 at the time of the incident.
Judge Kenta Tsuchikura stated, “Despite various measures that could have been taken, such as persuading the family, the defendant aided and abetted the suicide by short-sightedly preparing two edged knives. There are few extenuating circumstances and motives,” and sentenced the defendant to “two years of confinement with a five-year suspended sentence (two years is the recommended sentence).
The court noted that “this is a case of assisted suicide,” and that “the defendant has admitted his guilt and expressed his remorse. The court sentenced the defendant to the main sentence of confinement and set the grace period at the maximum of five years.
The incident was discovered at around 8:00 a.m. on October 5, 1925. A man stabbed himself with a kitchen knife,” was the 119 call. When paramedics rushed to the scene, they found Badal lying face down in his hotel room, covered in blood, and confirmed his death on the spot. It was defendant Asaka, who was present at the scene, who made the call. As Asaka told the police that he had shoplifted the two kitchen knives found at the scene, the Chiba Prefectural Police arrested Asaka on the spot on suspicion of theft. Later, on October 28, he was arrested on suspicion of murdering Mr. Badal.
Asaka denied the murder charge, saying it was a mistake, and prosecutors charged him with aiding and abetting suicide, theft, and violation of the Firearms Control Law. As for the fact that he was not charged with murder, the prosecutors stated that they made their decision in light of the evidence.
FRIDAY Digital” has reported on the trial twice. Here is a recap of some of the content of that report, re-edited to reflect on the trial.
On February 19, ’26, Asaka’s first trial was held at the Chiba District Court. Mr. Badal’s relatives attended the trial and listened to Asaka’s statement through a Nepali interpreter.
The trial gradually revealed what had happened that day.
Ms. Badal, a student at a Japanese language school, and Asaka met at a factory where she worked in December of 1949, and they began dating in March of 1950, 11 years apart. Asaka recalls that in March, when they began dating, he asked her to marry him.
He (Mr. Badal) first sent me a passionate message with the phrase ‘marriage. Also, when we actually met, he said something like, ‘I want to marry you. I liked him, but at that time I wasn’t thinking about marriage yet.”
Since Ms. Badal had school and Mr. Asaka was working a double job, they met exclusively at a hotel. When asked by the victim’s attorney if they had ever seen a movie together or gone to an amusement park, she replied, “No.”
Around September, defendant Asaka began to think about marrying Ms. Badal, but people around him were opposed to the idea. Asaka stated that there were three reasons that led him to consider suicide.
He said, “My family was against it, we didn’t have enough money to live together, and we didn’t have enough time to see each other because Mr. Badal had changed jobs.”
Regarding his family’s opposition, he said in response to a question from his attorney.
My parents were opposed to us because our cultures and upbringings were so different that it would be difficult for us to live together. He (Mr. Badal) also told me that his father called him and said, ‘What are you doing in Japan?
According to defendant Asaka, Mr. Badal was “very shocked, saying, ‘I want to be with you’ and ‘I want to marry you.
Then, out of nowhere, he began to think about suicide.
Mr. Badal showed me an image of a Nepalese kukri knife, saying, ‘If we can’t be together, then let’s die.'” (Defendant Asaka)
Asaka took the message that he was shown an image of a Kukri knife as a message that he should prepare a knife, and thinking that since he was going to die anyway, there was no need to go out of his way to buy one, on October 3, he went to a 100-yen store and stole two kitchen knives.
When he met Ms. Badal at her hotel on the night of October 4, he laid the two knives on the table in her room and told her that he had prepared the knives. As for what happened when Ms. Badal tried to commit suicide, defendant Asaka described the scene as follows.
“We were lying on the bed, crying and talking together, when suddenly he got up and said, ‘If we can’t be together, I’ll die,’ and he took a kitchen knife that was on the table and stabbed me in the chest area.”
As for why he did not go after Mr. Badal, he said, “I couldn’t act because my mind went blank. After hesitating for a while, he called 119.
I believe he was murdered.
What was puzzling was the terrible state of Badar’s body, even if he had injured it himself.
My brother had 11 stab wounds on his body. Deep stab wounds to the neck. He also had wounds on both hands, and his left hand was pierced by a blade. Also, near the heart, the blade had reached a depth of 16 cm.”
The prosecutor also pointed this out and asked, “Do you know how these wounds were made? To which defendant Asaka responded as follows.
I was on the bed and could only see Mr. Badal’s back. Mr. Badal was bent over, so I could not see how he was actually moving.
In his statement, Badal’s brother said, “If Badal had a mental problem, we would have noticed it,” and “Badal had already prepared his work shift for the next month. He had already prepared his work shift for the following month . “How could a person who intends to take his own life prepare future shifts?
In a police interview immediately after the incident, he said, “On the night of October 2, ’25, I heard from Badal that he said goodbye to defendant Asaka. We believe that Badal was murdered,” he also said.
The family could not accept that Badal had committed suicide. Although it was Asaka’s charge of “assisting suicide” that was contested at the trial, the guilty verdict confirmed Mr. Badal’s suicide, thus betraying the wishes of the bereaved family.
Asaka stated at the trial, “When I was opposed to the marriage, I lost my perspective and did not think to take the time to resolve the issue. The suspended sentence means that these words were accepted as “remorseful.
We wonder what the family of the deceased Badal will think of Asaka now that he has started down the path of rehabilitation.
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