Kathmandu: The amicus curiae of the court is giving its opinion in the case related to the decision to remove the word “OM” from the Nepali dictionary. The argument of the amicus curiae is going to start today as the argument of the lawyer for the petitioner and the lawyer of the government side has finished.

Writ petitioner and lawyer Swagat Nepal has informed that since the arguments of the petitioner, witness and the government lawyer in the writ against the removal of the word “OM” have been completed, the amicus curiae will be debated from today.The writ is being debated in the joint bench of Judge Sapna Malla Pradhan and Saranga Subedi .

The then Minister of Education, Dinanath Sharma forced to remove the word”OM”from the cabinet meeting on 6th August 2012 and implemented it. Advocate Swagat Nepal, Tapendra Bahadur Karki and others filed a writ in the Supreme Court on 9th September 2016 against the government’s decision.

They filed a writ saying that the word ‘om’ has been removed from the dictionary with the aim of ending Nepali, language, culture and tradition under foreign influence.

Earlier, the joint bench of Supreme Court Justices Kumar Chudal and Vinod Sharma had ordered to summon ‘Amicus Curiae’ to hear the writ. An order was made in the name of Nepal Bar to send an amicus curiae including a person with language and legal competence.

The petitioner has demanded that the amendment approved by the Ministry of Education on the proposal of the Curriculum Development Center should be cancelled. The word ‘om’ has been removed from the comprehensive Nepali dictionary of the 10th edition published in 2018.