Trivialising the apex court

When the executive flouts the judiciary's decisions, it raises questions on the constitution's legitimacy.

A Supreme Court of any democratic nation balances the state on its shoulders. In a social contract between the state and its citizens, the judiciary acts as a custodian of the contract through the instrument of the constitution. The essence of any contract is trust, and if this shrine of trust is mangled, then the citizens shall revolt against the state. In Nepal, the shrine of this trust seems to be diminishing, as the other two organs of the trias politica are flouting the orders of the country's apex court. The “balance of power” scale seems to be skewed, and the citizens' faith in the guardian of the social contract seems to be eroding away. From the landmark steps of the Supreme Court to quash the citizenship requirement for pandemic relief to the compensation of victims of the Baburam Bhattarai government’s road expansion project, the government has failed to implement as many as 23 rulings of the Supreme Court.