Business stalled for third day in Nepal SC; Chief Justice refuses to step down

The Nepal Supreme Court’s routine enterprise was stalled for the third day in a row after Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana refused to step down regardless of strain from the bar and from 15 out of 21 high court docket judges. They boycotted routine enterprise, demanding that Rana give up to “redeem the honour and credibility of the court”, amid allegations relating to the Chief Justice’s interactions with politicians.
“I will not quit because of such pressure, but will face an impeachment should parliamentarians want it,”
Rana insisted, bringing the bitter confrontation within the judiciary to an unprecedented degree.
Denying allegations that he pushed for his relative to be inducted into the lately shaped Cabinet, Rana requested fellow judges if they’d another cause for demanding his resignation.
“Some of your verdicts have brought the judiciary to disrepute and you must step aside for that,” one of many 15 judges is believed to have stated.
“In that case, let us have all controversial verdicts by all judges reviewed and let others also quit,” Rana stated in response.
Soon after the spat between the Chief Justice and different judges got here out within the open, former Nepal Prime Minister Ok P Sharma Oli stated all of the 5 judges, together with Rana, who have been within the constitutional bench that reversed his resolution to dismiss the House of Representatives have been “politically motivated, and must quit”.

Rana has been accused of constructing offers with politicians, and looking for a ministerial berth for his brother-in-law, who was appointed as a minister on October 8, however resigned lower than 72 hours after his induction following the controversy.