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Read more about Nepal's Constitutional Bench to hear petitions against House dissolution on Business Standard. Nepal's Chief Justice has picked four justices of SC for the Constitutional Bench to hear the 30 writ petitions filed against the dissolution of the House of Representatives by the President
As many as 30 writ petitions have been registered at the apex court against President Bidya Devi Bhandari's May 22 move to dissolve the lower house of Parliament on the advice of Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli, who is heading a minority government.
Preliminary hearing on 19 writ petitions demanding an interim order against the dissolution of House of Representatives has begun in the Supreme Court.
A single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Sumsher Rana is conducting the preliminary hearing on 19 petitions demanding an interim order against the dissolution of the House.
As many as 30 petitions, including the one by the Opposition alliance, were filed at the Supreme Court, challenging Friday's House dissolution. These cases will now be heard along with eleven others, including the one filed by 146 lawmakers demanding appointment of Nepali Congress President Deuba as the prime minister.