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The full text of the Supreme Court’s instructions to the government on amending the National Human Rights Commission Act has been released

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Kathmandu – The Supreme Court has recently released the full text of the instructions given to the government to amend the National Human Rights Commission Act.

The bench of Justice Sushma Lata Mathema and Hariprasad Phuyal gave this order. Along with the order, the government has been asked to amend the National Human Rights Commission Act to make the activities of the National Human Rights Commission effective.

In the order, the government has been requested to stop recommending and appointing people who violate public human rights to constitutional bodies. It directed that action be taken against the human rights violators directly by the Attorney General as per the recommendations of the NHRC.

The directive was issued in September in response to a writ petition filed five years ago regarding non-effective implementation of the recommendations of the National Human Rights Commission. The petitioner claimed that Section 13 (3) of the Enforced Disappeared Persons Investigation, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, 2014 was in conflict with the constitutional provisions providing the functions and powers of the NHC in Article 249 of the Constitution of Nepal.

Petitioner Advocate Birendra Thapalia demanded the jurisdiction of the National Human Rights Commission to investigate the cases of human rights violations during the armed conflict.

Amicus curiae to give its opinion on the petition against the decision to remove the word “OM” from the dictionary

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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.

Supreme Court orders to keep Aftab Alam in custody

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Supreme Court has ordered to keep Nepali Congress leader and former minister Mohammad Aftab Alam in custody till the final verdict in his case.

The apex court passed the order citing the orders of the district court and the high court. Earlier, the Rautahat District Court and the Birgunj Bench of the Janakpur High Court had remanded Alam in custody for trial. In a joint sitting of Justices Sushmalata Mathe and Nahakul Subedi today, the apex court ruled that Alam should not be released.

Alam has been demanded to 32 years in prison on charges of bomb blast, manslaughter and murder.

Continuation of Governor Adhikari in NRB

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Continuing its interim order, the Supreme Court has ordered to keep the action against Governor Maha Prasad Adhikari of Nepal Rastra Bank as it is.

A joint bench of Justices Sapna Pradhan Malla and Tanka Bahadur Moktan upheld the earlier interim order. Earlier, a bench of Justice Hari Phuyal had issued a short-term interim order directing Governor Adhikari to return to work.

Concluding the three-day-long hearing, the Supreme Court upheld the old interim order. The Supreme Court will now regularly hear the original case. Until then, today’s order has paved the way for Governor Adhikari to remain in office.