Writ petition filed at SC against Agni Sapkota

KATHMANDU: Senior Advocate Dinesh Tripathi on Friday filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court (SC) against the candidate of Speaker Agni Sapkota.

Tripathi moved the court seeking an interim order to immediately halt the process of Speaker’s election arguing that a murder-accused should not qualify for the post of Speaker of the federal parliament.

Tripathi, in the writ petition, has demanded to immediately arrest Sapkota and present him at the court since he is the murder-accused.

Spakota has registered his nomination for the speaker’s election representing ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP).

He is the sole candidate for the post of speaker.

A meeting of the House of Representatives scheduled for Sunday (January 26) will unanimously elect him as the Speaker.

Sapkota has been accused of murdering Arjun Lama of Chhatrabans of Kavre district.

The dead body of Lama, who was abducted by the Maoist cadres on April 30, 2005, had been found at Charkilo of Budakhani of the district.