Jabara’s impeachment nullified: Bar Association on protest

The general secretary of the Parliament Secretariat, Bharatraj Gautam, has issued a letter stating that the impeachment of the suspended Chief Justice Choldra Shamsher Jabara has become ineffective.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has issued instructions to the security agencies to stop Cholendra Shamsher Jabara, who is about to return to the Supreme Court after Bharatraj Gautam gave a letter that the impeachment was ineffective, and on the other hand, the employees of the Bar Association have staged a protest at the gate of the Supreme Court to stop him. The Supreme Court has questioned General Secretary Gautam about the letter and also asked for an explanation.

Bar Association President Purnaman Shakya and other officials have also submitted a writ petition to the Supreme Court saying that the letter given by the General Secretary of the Federal Parliament Bharatraj Gautam stating that the impeachment proposal against Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Jabara is ineffective is illegal.

Regarding the subject , Government Spokesman and Minister of Communication and Information Technology Gyanendra Bahadur Karki has said that the grand indictment against Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Jabara is still alive and the matter will be discussed in the upcoming House of Representatives.

9 reasons to impeach the suspended Chief Justice Jabara

The impeachment recommendation committee has submitted a report to Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota citing 9 reasons for impeachment against the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Jabara.

In the report submitted by the committee to Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota, it has been mentioned that Jabara violated the law by reducing the Sentence in Ranjan Koirala’s case, and violated the code of conduct to be observed by judges by not taking the Constitutional appointment case to the hearing process.

It has also been mentioned that Jabara failed to fulfil the duty according to the constitutional provision of taking the final responsibility of administration of justices. Committee has also accused him for violating the law by not inviting international bids for the contract related to the construction of the Supreme Court.

Jabara confess in Ranjan Koirala’s case

The statement of the suspended Chief Justice Jabara, taken by the House of Representatives’ impeachment recommendation committee has ended for today.,

Earlier, the committee, which asked only six questions in two days, today asked Jabara five questions in one hour.

In today’s statement, Jabara has said that the impeachment against him is misleading and futile and despite following the constitution, the political parties are trying to take revenge on him.

During the statement, Jabara admitted that he had made a mistake in the case of then DIG Ranjan Koirala and said that he apologized if he had been impeached based on that. However, he explained that the sentence was reduced for the upkeep of the minor sons of the accused.

The next meeting of the committee will be held on the 26th of Bhadra 2079 BS.at 12:30 p.m.

Public appeal seeking evidence against suspended Chief Justice Jabara

The impeachment recommendation committee has issued a public notice today, asking to provide any evidence, documents or information against the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Jabara within 3 days.

It seems that after the committee started its study on the impeachment motion against Jabra, the process of evidence collection has been advanced. In the notification issued by the impeachment recommendation committee, it is said that the meeting of the impeachment recommendation committee formed by the House of Representatives dated 2079/5/8 has requested that evidence, documents and information related to the impeachment charges be provided to the committee by issuing a public notice from all the entities or individuals concerned with this matter. Since it has been decided to request evidence, documents and information, it is requested that such evidence, documents and information be sent to this committee within three (3) days from the date of publication of this notice.

Impeachment Recommendation Committee meeting will be held today

The meeting of the Impeachment Recommendation Committee is scheduled to be held today at 2 pm.

According to Ram Bahadur Bista, a senior member of the Impeachment Recommendation Committee, today’s meeting includes the agenda of passing the internal procedure of the committee distributed in the previous meeting and submitting the investigation agenda on Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Jabara.

On February 13, 98 parliamentarians of the coalition party filed an impeachment against Jabara in the House of Representatives, alleging 21 accusations.

Meeting of the impeachment recommendation committee to be held today

The first meeting of the impeachment recommendation committee formed to discuss the impeachment against the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Jabara will be held today at 11:30 am in the auditorium of the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee at Singhdarbar.

On February 13 2022, 98 parliamentarians of the coalition party filed an impeachment motion against Jabara in the House of Representatives, alleging 21 accusations.

The House of Representatives meeting held on the 6th of March formed an 11-member committee to investigate the impeachment of Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Jabara. Similarly, the meeting of the House of Representatives held on the 7th of August passed the decision to send to the impeachment recommendation committee after a theoretical discussion on the impeachment proposal against Jabara.

The committee said that in today’s meeting of the committee, the preliminary study will be started by discussing the procedure regarding the impeachment against Chief Justice Jabara.

Supreme Court removed Cholendra from the list of judges and also removed the security personnel

The Supreme Court has removed Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Jabra from its list of judges on its website.

In place of Jabra’s name and photo, acting Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Karki has been placed. After the 98 lawmakers filed the impeachment motion today, the name and photo of Jabra, who was automatically suspended, has been removed and Deepak Karki has been permanently mentioned.

Karki is a senior Supreme Court judge.

According to the constitutional provision of automatic suspension as soon as the impeachment is registered, Rana has been without a role since Sunday.He had even removed the flag from the vehicle after the impeachment letter reached the apex court. The agitation against him had been going on for three and a half months.

Meanwhile, security personnel assigned to guard Jabra have also been recalled. Security personnel deployed at the official residence in Baluwatar have been recalled and assigned to acting Chief Justice Deepak Karki.