SC hearing on Citizenship Ordinance scheduled for Wednesday
19 May 2024
KATHMANDU: The dispute over the citizenship ordinance formerly put forward by the KP Oli-led government is scheduled to be heard in the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
On 23 May 2021, the then government brought an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act. However, the law practitioners filed a writ petition at the apex court saying that the ordinance was brought by postponing the parliamentary session.
Hearing the writ petition, the Supreme Court (SC) had issued an interim order not to implement the ordinance saying it would not be appropriate to make a law by evading th...
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