KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court (SC) has asked the Nepal Communist Party (NCP leader Agni Sapkota, the sole candidate for the post of speaker, to be present in the court on Sunday.
The SC asked Sapkota considering the writ petition filed by senior Advocate Dinesh Tripathi against him on Friday.
Tripathi had on Friday 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.
Sapkota has registered his nomination for the speaker’s election representing the 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.
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