Supreme Court orders review of the decision by a bench comprising chief justice on Ranjan Koirala case

A three-justice bench questions the rationale behind Chief Justice Cholendra Rana and Justice Tej Bahadur KC’s verdict to commute Koirala’s sentence from life imprisonment to eight and a half years for murdering his wife.

The Supreme Court on Sunday decided to review the judgment passed by Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana and Justice Tej Bahadur KC to cut short the punishment for Ranjan Koirala, a former deputy inspector general of the Armed Police Force, who was serving a life term on the charge of murdering his wife, Gita Dhakal.