Writ filed

Kathmandu, March 13-A writ petition was filed in the Supreme Court on sunday seeking its order to scrap provisions in several Acts that authorise courts to confiscate property of convicts who are sentenced with life term following their conviction.

The petition was filed seeking the apex court’s order to scrap such provisions claiming that such provisions are contradictory with international rights laws.

Advocate Achyut Prasad Kharel produced the petition before the apex court seeking its order to scrap provisions in Terrorist and Disruptive Act Control and Punishment Ordinance (TADO) 2005, Heir to the Crown Act 1987, Military Act 1959, Transportation Management Act 1991 and civil code 1963. Though the petition was produced before the SC, the court is yet to decide whether to register it or not.

The petitioner made the Office of the Prime Ministerand the Cabinet (PMO) as defendant in the case. The petitioner claimed the provicions contyradicted with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966 which has already been adopted by Nepal. He said life term punishment is sufficient so that the provision of property confiscation should be scrapped.