The Supreme Court has refused to issue an interim order in the writ petition filed against the appointment of Executive Director of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), Kulman Ghising. This has paved the way for Ghising to continue with his tenure until the final verdict. The government had removed Hitendra Dev Shakya on August 11 from […]
The Supreme Court has issued an interim order to conduct an impartial and effective investigation into the incident of alleged caste-based discrimination and untouchability perpetuated against Rupa Sunar within 25 days. Sunar had lodged a police complaint against Saraswati Pradhan, a house owner at Babarmahal, on June 17 alleging that Pradhan had denied to rent
Supreme Court issues interim order to investigate into Rupa Sunar’s case within 25 days Read Post »
The Supreme Court has sought a written response from Minister for Education, Science and Technology Krishna Gopal Shrestha on the allegations of abetting caste-based discrimination and untouchability levelled against him. Hearing the writ petition filed by Rupa Sunar, Supreme Court Judge Kumar Regmi on Wednesday directed Minister Shrestha to submit a written reply through the
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ruled that the recent appointment of ministers by caretaker Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was unconstitutional and ordered the government not to let those ministers discharge their duties. During a hearing of six different petitions filed against Oli’s move of expanding his Council of Ministers on June 4 and
SC annuls caretaker PM Oli’s Cabinet expansion, 20 ministers lose their jobs Read Post »
A courtroom drama unfolded at the Supreme Court today as soon as the newly constituted Constitutional Bench began its hearing on the writs filed against the May 22 dissolution of House of Representatives. President Bidya Devi Bhandari had dissolved the House of Representatives (HoR) on May 22 and fixed general elections in November amid a
Restructured constitutional bench fails to end courtroom drama on House dissolution Read Post »
After justices Tej Bahadur KC and Bam Kumar Shrestha were asked to recuse themselves from the constitutional bench that is hearing the writs filed against House dissolution, resulting in two other justices opting out of the bench, Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana yesterday said that a new constitutional bench would be formed on June 6.
Constitutional bench hearing House dissolution writs to be re-formed Read Post »
Chairman of the CPN-Maoist Centre (CPN-MC) Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday filed a review petition at the Supreme Court challenging its earlier ruling to give away party name – Nepal Communist Party (NCP) — to another person and therefore nullify the unification between CPN-UML and CPN-MC. A joint bench of justices Bam Kumar Shrestha and
The Supreme Court today decided to send all the writ petitions filed against the government’s move of Parliament dissolution to the five-member Constitutional bench. A single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher JB Rana made the decision after hearing all 12 petitions. Now, the petitions will be heard by the Constitutional bench from Friday. The
Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Vice-chair Bamdev Gautam’s path to retain his post as a member of the Upper House and become a minister have opened after a five-member constitutional bench of the Supreme Court refused to issue an interim order in cases challenging his appointment as National Assembly (NA) member. Four justices — Chief Justice
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The Supreme Court has issued an order of mandamus to the government to conduct free of cost PCR tests across the country. A joint bench of Supreme Court Justices Ananda Mohan Bhattarai and Tanka Bahadur Moktan on Thursday issued the order in the name of the Ministry of Health and Population. Advocates Keshar Jung KC
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