KATHMANDU: The Apex Court has not registered the case of contempt against Prime Minister KP Oli.
According to sources, the Court has shelved the case against PM Oli, filed by senior advocate Dinesh Tripathi on May 23 without registration.
Senior advocate Tripathi complained that although the Supreme Court administration has the right to refuse to register or accept the case and register it, the administration has shelved the case without any decision for 11 days.
He argued that SC should have registered and proceeded the case filed by him as it was also related to PM Oli’s disobedience of SC order not to dissolve the House of Representatives unless all alternative ways of formation of government were tried upon.
“The dissolution of HoR for the second time is unconstitutional and also against the SC verdict that asked the government not to dissolve the parliament unless all constitutional ways of formation of the government are tried,” senior advocate Tripathi said, adding “However, PM Oli has violated the SC verdict of February 23 by dissolving the parliament on May 22 despite getting the order not to do so.”
Tripathi added that everyone, including the PM, should abide by the SC verdict.
He has demanded one-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 against PM Oli for the latter’s disobedience of the court order.
Chief of the Supreme Court’s Cases Division Baburam Dahal, however, said that the case could not be registered as per the full court’s decision to reduce the service due to coronavirus spread.
Dahal hoped the meeting of SC Full Court scheduled for Friday could make the decision to extend the services curtailed due to the pandemic outbreak earlier and opined that the case could be registered if such a decision is made soon.
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