One Prakashmani Sharma filed the case in 2004 for Koirala´s public statement. Koirala had suggested that "the court now be shifted to the royal palace".
Hearings of Justices Damodar Prasad Sharma and Prem Sharma gave him clean chit, arguing that the NC president´s statement was just anger against the then political situation. "So that cannot be termed as a contempt of court," the justices remarked on the decision.
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