KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court (SC) has concluded the hearing on a long-pending writ petition filed against former Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota. According to the court administration, the Constitutional Bench may issue an order as early as today.
The case was reviewed by a bench comprising Chief Justice Prakash Man Singh Raut and Justices Sapana Pradhan Malla, Kumar Regmi, Manoj Kumar Sharma, and Kumar Chudal.
The final hearing took place on March 12, after being postponed multiple times due to procedural delays.
The writ petition, filed by Purnimaya Lama, has been pending before the court for over 14 years.
Lama is seeking an investigation into the alleged involvement of Agni Sapkota in the murder of her husband, Arjun Lama, a local businessman and chair of the school management committee of Shree Krishna Secondary School in Dapcha, Kavre.
Arjun Lama was reportedly abducted in April 2005, during the Maoist insurgency, from a school committee meeting.
Lama’s wife alleges that Maoist leaders Agni Sapkota, Suryaman Dong, Yadav Poudel, Bhola Aryal, Karnakhar Gautam, and Norbu Moktan were involved in the incident.
Although the case reached the decision-making stage during the tenure of former Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana, no verdict was issued at the time, as the hearing was deferred through other interim orders.
A similar situation occurred under Chief Justice Bishwambhar Prasad Shrestha, when the verdict was postponed twice before another order was issued.
Following Chief Justice Shrestha’s retirement, the newly formed Constitutional Bench had to rehear the case from the beginning. Now, with the hearing complete, a decision may finally be forthcoming.
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