KATHMANDU: Supreme Court’s senior-most justice Deepak Kumar Karki has been the Acting Chief Justice with the registration of an impeachment motion against Chief Justice Cholendra Shumser JB Rana.

Lawmakers from the ruling parties moved the federal parliament secretariat, Singha Durbar this morning to file a motion of impeachment against Rana.

With this, Karki has become the acting CJ automatically by being the senior-most justice at the SC.

The impeachment proposed by Dev Prasad Gurung of the CPN-Maoist Center, Dr Pushpa Bhusal of the Nepali Congress and Jeevanram Shrestha of CPN-Unified Socialist was backed by Nepali Congress lawmaker Dr Minendra Rijal and many other lawmakers.