Advocates say constitutional bench needs more justices, CJ says “infrastructure is the constraint”

KATHMANDU: Taking part in the hearing on behalf of the writ petitioners, lawyers have pointed out that the number of justices hearing the case should have been higher, to which Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana replies he too realized it but there were the constraints of infrastructure.

During his presentation at the Constitutional Bench, the Senior Advocate Shambhu Thapa had raised his concern over the number of justices hearing the case and had opined that the number of judges should be increased in such bench.

Earlier, Senior Advocate Thapa, and advocate Badri Bahadur Karki had also raised the issue of increasing the number of judges.

CJ Rana replied that he, too, has realized that number has to be increased, but said that there is the constraint of infrastructure.

“We have also felt it, however, there is a lack of infrastructure,” he told senior advocate Thapa and added, “There is no room for five, how can there be seven or eleven?”

Justice Tej Bahadur KC also echoed CJ and added that they have also realized it all, yet could do nothing more for this time.