NBA to hold march-past from SC to Baluwatar

KATHMANDU: Nepal Bar Association (NBA), an umbrella organization of legal practitioners, is preparing to hold a march-past from the Supreme Court (SC) in Ram Shah Path to Baluwatar. The march-past will be held at 2 PM on Thursday as an attempt to pressurize the government and political parties to impeach Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana. The association has been staging protest demonstrations for the past one month demanding the resignation of Chief Justice Rana as the latter was embodied in multiple controversies. Rana’s ‘claim for a share’ in the Deuba-led Cabinet triggered the lawyers and even the justices of the apex court to hold protest demonstrations. Speaking during a sit-in protest on the SC premises on Tuesday, NBA Chairperson Chandeshwar Shrestha Said that civil society members will join the march past and express their solidarity in the movement to ‘purify the judiciary’. Shrestha also shared that similar programs of protest will be held at 18 high courts across the country on Wednesday afternoon. On the occasion, senior advocate Chandra Kanta Gyawali condemned the police brutality against the agitating lawyers on the court premises.

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KATHMANDU, December 2: A meeting of the ruling alliance, the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) and Rastriya Janamorcha Party, has suggested the chief justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana to take leave and designate a acting chief justice during his absence in the Supreme Court (SC). A meeting held at Prime Minister’s residence office at Baluwatar in the capital suggested CJ Rana to take a leave since he has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and designate an acting CJ in his absence for a smooth operation of the judicial body, according to Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, Minister for Information, Communication and Spokesperson for the government. The meeting was attended by PM Sher Bahadur Deuba, Chairman of CPN (Maoist Center) Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Chairman of CPN (Unified Socialist) Madhav Kumar Nepal, Chairman of JSP Upendra Yadav and Durga Poudel of Rastriya Janamorcha Party. Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana was admitted to the Armed Police Force Hospital, Balambu, on Monday after he tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

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NBA representatives meet PM Deuba

KATHMANDU, November 25: A day after the Nepal Bar Association (NBA) staged a march past from the Supreme Court (SC) to Baluwatar pressuring Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana to step down, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and representatives of the agitating NBA and SC justices meet to chalk out possible solutions to the disputes on Friday. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister Deuba’s Office Residence at Baluwatar for more than 30 minutes. “We called for efforts from the government and the ruling Nepali Congress to settle the disputes at the apex court,” said Lila Mani Poudel, General Secretary of the NBA. “We have also submitted a similar letter to PM Deuba that was earlier sent to Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota and the political parties in the federal parliament stating 17 reasons why CJ Rana must step down,” Poudel further stated. Along with representatives of the agitating NBA, former Speaker Damannath Dhungana, senior advocate Bhadri Bahadur Karki, Harihar Dahal, Sambhu Thapa and Prem Bahadur Khadka also expressed their opinion during the meeting. On his part, PM Deuba committed to find a solution to the intensified disputes at the apex court in a few days after holding discussions with leaders of the ruling alliance, according to general secretary Poudel. The NBA and some of the fellow justices of SC have been staging protests demanding the resignation of CJ Rana for the past few weeks. The association also held a march past to protest against CJ Rana from SC to Baluwatar on Thursday and have been staging sit-in protests in SC and high courts across the country.

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NBA Chair Chandeshwar Shrestha informed that the march past will be held at 2 pm on Thursday and that civil society members would also join in the protest event.

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Apex court seeks written indicting former PMs in Baluwatar land scam

The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an order to the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) demanding reasons in writing for not filing a charge-sheet against former Prime Ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Dr Baburam Bhattarai in the Lalita Niwas land procurement scam.

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