The Supreme Court has ordered the government to submit within three days any reasons not to release arrested former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak.
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The Supreme Court has ordered the government to submit within 3 days if there is any reason not to release arrested former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak.
The Supreme Court gave this order while hearing two separate custodial interrogation petitions filed by Oli and Lekhak.
The police had arrested them on Saturday morning based on the report of the inquiry commission led by former judge Gauri Bahadur Karki, which recommended an investigation into Oli and Lekhak for the human losses caused during the Gen-G movement on Bhadra 23 and 24. The police had taken them under control from their residence by issuing an 'urgent arrest warrant' without obtaining permission from the court.
They had been arrested in violation of the legal provision that an 'urgent arrest warrant' should be issued only in cases where they might flee or destroy evidence and had filed a custodial interrogation petition on the basis of the report alone. On Monday, a bench of Justice Meghraj Pokharel, hearing the petition of Oli and Kumar Regmi, also asked the government what were the preconditions for issuing an 'urgent arrest warrant'.
The government will respond within 3 days of receiving the Supreme Court's order.
The Karki Commission had recommended an investigation and prosecution against Oli and the writer, saying that human losses had occurred during the protest due to their negligence and carelessness.
