Former Supreme Court Judge Girish Chandra Lal has said that democracy and free press are each other's companion and companion. He said that if mistakes are found in the citizenship, that person is not a citizen of Nepal. He says that such matters should not be insulted.

Former Supreme Court judge Lal has made his views public through social media regarding the arrest of Kailash Sirohia, president of Kantipur Media Group, by the police from the office of Kantipur Dainik on Tuesday.

'As far as the question of the citizenship of Kantipur president Kailash Sirohia is concerned, all contemporary residents of Janakpur including me can say with one voice that Kailash Sirohia's father. Mr. Ghasiram was a resident of Janakpurdham and a good businessman and Kailash Sirohia is as much a citizen of Nepal as Janakpurdham is of Nepal," former judge Lal wrote, "as far as the date of birth or citizenship number is wrongly mentioned in the citizenship, such mistakes are found in many citizenship certificates. But because of that, it cannot be said that the certificate holder is not a citizen.'

Although it is necessary to seek legal remedies regarding citizenship, it should not be assumed that a person is not a Nepali citizen on the basis of that, former judge Lal says. "In this regard, it is necessary to find and have a legal treatment". However, to say that person is not a citizen of Nepal just because of that is to insult the citizen of Nepal. Those who say such insulting things may call themselves as nationalists, but we can directly experience the trauma to our internal unity because of them," he said. Nepalese are .'

Former judge Lal has also recalled that Kantipur media has repeatedly criticized him. He wrote, 'Although Kantipur wrote against me time and time again, I have never tried to take any action against Kantipur or any other journalist, because those who believe in democracy should believe in freedom of expression much more than their criticism. Such things have increased people's trust in me personally. I also believe that all kinds of criticism should be taken positively and it will ultimately do its good.'

Former judge Lal has also written that the role of Kantipur Media Group has always been positive towards democracy.

The president of Kantipur Media Group, Sirohia, was arrested from the office on Tuesday on the pretext that the citizenship number given by the district administration matched that of another person.

The police team reached the eighth floor office of the Kantipur office to arrest President Sirohia while he was at work trampling on the democratic practice of not allowing security agencies of the state to enter the office of the independent press. A team including SSP Sanukumar Bhattarai and SP Ravindra Regmi of the Valley Crime Investigation Office Kathmandu entered the working room with police officers including Bardi.