6.4 Burden of Proof under Nepali Law

6.4.1 Evidence law (the general statute): the Evidence Act 2031's allocation — the asserter's principle (the plaintiff's claim-facts; the defendant's counter-assertions); the counterclaim's (jikir) burden: the accused or defendant asserting remission or a defence must prove it — the statutory anchoring of Unit 3.4's maxim (HMG v. Devi Maya Ranabhat — Unit 7.4: the unproved jikir failing); the presumption provisions (the regularity; the possession's faces). 6.4.2 Corruption law: the illicit-wealth reversal — the public servant's assets disproportionate to known income: the disproportion's presumption (the illegal source's inference) once the prosecution proves the disproportion — the burden passing to the accused to explain the wealth's lawful source; the Prevention of Corruption Act's machinery (the CIAA's cases' world); the constitutional fairness debates (the reversal's justification: the evidence's secret possession — the public servant's own knowledge). 6.4.3 Narcotics drugs law: the possession's presumptions — the narcotics found in possession: the knowledge-and-purpose presumptions (the possession raising the trafficking-or- consumption inference; the quantity's role in the classification); the accused's burden to prove the innocent explanation (the consumption vs. trade distinction — the sentence's gravity following the purpose); the act's reversals read with the constitutional discipline. 6.4.4 Woman's trafficking: the trafficking law's protective presumptions — the victim's circumstances (the transported person's custody in the brothel-like setting) raising the trafficking inference; the burden on the accused to…