Nembang demands compensation: SC orders to bring Detainees before Court

Kathmandu15-Former minister and advocate Subhash Chandra Nembang filed a petition at the Kathmandu District Court against the Home Ministry and the Kathmandu District Administration Office for ‘misusing’ the Public Peace and Security Act, 1989, while detaining leaders and human rights activists.

In a petition, Nembang also sought the court’s order to the government to provide him at least Rs 100,000 in damages as he was ‘illegally’ detained for 28 days.

He claimed that the government has been misusing a provision of the Act while taking persons in preventive detention even after the Supreme Court’s strictures against detaining anyone illegally.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday ordered the government to produce three leaders of Nepali Congress (NC) before the Court on March 16.

Acting upon a habeas corpus writ petition, a single bench of Justice Khil Raj Regmi ordered the government to produce NC leaders Bimalendra Nidhi, Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat and Pradeep Firi before the SC.

The bench also directed the Home Ministry, the Bhaktapur District Administration Office and the Royal Nepalese Army's Guheshowari Barrack at Duwakot to furnish written explanation on the trio's detention.

The government released NC leader Dr. Mahat on Monday from the premises of Kathmandu District Court.