26 Sept-Kathmandu: The Supreme Court (SC) has reversed its previous interim order which would allow the convict of criminal to be candidate for Constituent Assembly (CA) on Thursday.
A special bench of the apex court justices Girish Chandra Lal, Sushila Karki and Prakash Wosti reversed an interim order issued by judge Tarkaraj Bhatta on Monday and endorsed the provision that bars an individual sentenced to life in prison and life in prison with confiscation of property for murder from contesting the elections to the CA.
The bench of the apex court order to continue the provision in Clause 19 (e) of the Ordinance relating to the CA member elections published in the gazette on September 16.
A single bench of Justice Tarkaraj Bhatta on Monday hearing on a writ petition filed last Thursday by advocate Biswa Prakash Bhandari calling for dissolution of the provision in Clause 19 (e) of the Ordinanc, had issued an interim order to not implement the provision in Clause 19 (e) of the Ordinance published in the national gazette.
Article 65 (c) of the Interim Constitution has provided that one of the eligibility for becoming a member of the Constituent Assembly is that the individuals must not have faced punishment in a criminal case with moral degradation while Clause 19(e) of the Ordinance says that the candidate should not be a person convicted in a murder case with a sentence of life imprisonment or life imprisonment along with confiscation of property.
Advocates and civil society activists had objected the interim order of SC and had been demanding the ban on the convicts of criminal charges from being CA candidates.
