Although the Supreme Court's interim order on October 16 stayed the government's decision to recall the ambassador, a contempt case was filed in the Supreme Court after the government, in violation of the order, sent a letter to the ministry requesting him to return and appear at the ministry only yesterday.
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The Supreme Court has refused to register contempt cases filed for not complying with its own order regarding the ambassador's recall. Although the Supreme Court's interim order of November 16 stayed the government's decision to recall the ambassador, the contempt case was filed in the Supreme Court after the government, in violation of the order, sent a letter to the ministry asking him to return yesterday.
‘We have filed a case . But due to the Genji movement, it has been returned to us saying that it cannot be registered as it is the Supreme Court’s policy that petitions other than writs are not registered,’ said Advocate Anantaraj Luintel . ‘It has been said that when the full service of the Supreme Court will begin to register contempt cases, it will be decided that they should not be registered only .’ Legal practitioners complain that the Supreme Court has delayed returning the three contempt cases even though they were filed in the Supreme Court at 11 am.
A joint bench of Justices Saranga Subedi and Shrikant Poudel had issued an interim order not to implement the decision to recall the ambassadors on the 16th, while only yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued another letter to the ambassadors of eleven countries through its letter No. 3425 dated 2082 Kartik 17 to appear at the ministry by the 20th.
Advocates Anantaraj Luintel, Pratibha Upreti, Vishal Thapa had filed one contempt petition today, and Laxmi Prasad Regmi and Sunil Bhattarai had filed three separate contempt petitions, alleging that the correspondence against the Supreme Court order constituted contempt of court. The Prime Minister and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have been demanded to be punished for contempt.
Some advocates had expressed their anger at the Nepal Bar, saying that the Supreme Court had not shown sensitivity even in the petition filed demanding compliance with its own order.
After a writ petition was filed in the Supreme Court challenging the government's decision on Asoj 30, the Minister of Communications has made public the government's policy of not making new appointments to vacant positions. The elected government has been widely criticized for maintaining a foreign policy without an ambassador and has not even been able to appoint a foreign minister so far.
The government, which should be focusing on the elections, has been criticized for not focusing on the elections or undervaluing the mandate it has received by being preoccupied with recalling ambassadors and making new appointments.
