Supreme Court summons editors over news reports. Not everyone is amused

Experts say court’s rebuttal of news suggesting a meeting between prime minister and chief justice is uncalled for and demanding proof from editors wrong.

When the hearing on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s first House dissolution of December 20 was underway in the Supreme Court, reports surfaced in a section of online media that Justices Hari Krishna Karki and Sapana Pradhan Malla met the prime minister in the afternoon of January 10. Reports suggested that Justices Dipak Kumar Karki and Mira Khadka met with Oli in the evening for an hour the next day.