Supreme Court orders government not to evict or displace squatters without due process

A division bench of Justices Kumar Regmi and Nityananda Pandey issued the order on Friday in response to the writ petition filed on April 24.

The Supreme Court has issued an interim order directing the government not to evict or displace squatters and informal settlers from their current locations without following due legal procedures, while hearing a petition challenging the decision to remove squatter settlements in Kathmandu.