Kathmandu. Nepal's constitution guarantees citizens who reach the age of 18 the right to elect the country's Prime Minister and representatives, considering them 'adults' (balig). However, curiously, if these same 18-year-old 'adults' choose their life partner and marry, the state brands them as 'criminals'.To resolve this serious constitutional contradiction and the ambiguity in the definition of adult age, a writ petition was filed in the Supreme Court's Constitutional Bench by lawyers including Senior Advocate Dr. Chandrakant Gyawali. The Constitutional Bench, comprising Chief Justice Prakashman Singh Raut and Justices Kumar Regmi, Hari Prasad Phuyal, Manojkumar Sharma, and Nahkul Subedi, issued a...