Hearing of defendants including Suspended Secretary Tek Narayan Pandey ends

KATHMANDU, Aug 17: The hearing of the petition of defendants including the suspended Secretary of the Government of Nepal Tek Narayan Pandey, who were kept in custody for trial, has ended. The hearing of 10 people including Pandey in the joint bench of Justices of the Patan High Court Hari Prasad Paudel and Kiran Kumar Pokharel ended on Thursday.

They reached the Patan High Court against the order of the Kathmandu District Court to keep them in custody. The petitions of Congress leader Balkrishna Khan, UML secretary Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and other petitions, however, have not been scheduled for a hearing. Due to the fact that the ‘Kaifiyat report’ requested by the High Court Patan from the Kathmandu District Court has not arrived, their petition has not been scheduled for a hearing.