SC refrains from staying CA term extension

KATHMANDU, May 23: The Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday declined to stay the government move to extend the Constituent Assembly (CA) term, leaving the political parties to decide on the issue on their own and thus refraining from courting a political controversy.



Responding to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), division bench of Justices Khil Raj Regmi and Krishna Prasad Upadhyay stated that the bid to extend the Constituent Assembly (CA) term should not be stayed from the view of “privilege and balance”.



The court also said that staying of the move will cause an irreparable loss to politics of consensus that has been the basis of the Interim Constitution.



Bharat Jungam, who has a royalist background, moved the court with the petition, seeking SC order to stay the government move to extend Constituent Assembly (CA) term.

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