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Petitioner Bal Krishna Neupane said argued in his application that fresh hearing was needed as the final verdict was not delivered due to the tenure of the temporary justices coming to an end, after legal debates and date postponement for the verdict for thrice.
Neupane had lodged the application on in October last year demanding that the SC issue a verdict to scrap the BIPPA signed with India by Industry Minister Anil Kumar Jha during the India visit by Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai.
Earlier, a division bench of justices Tahir Ali Ansari, Baijanath Upadhyay and Dr Bharat Bahadur Karki had given an interim order not to exchange the information as stated in article 15 of the BIPPA until a final verdict was delivered or the complete process was not followed as per the article 156 of the Interim Constitution.
Temporary justice Upreti resigned last December while Karki´s tenure came to an end.
In the new hearing on the case that began on Thursday, a division bench of justice trio Ram Kumar Prasad Saha, Kalyan Shrestha and Sushila Karki issued an order in the name of government to submit details within 15 days whether the agreement was publicized in Nepal gazette or was not required to do so.
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