The government ignored the major recommendations of the SC submitted to PM GP Koirala seeking amendments in different provisions of the Interim Constitution 2007.
The government only changed some minor provisions related to the Judicial Council (JC).
The minor changes relate to the composition of the JC recognising the senior most judge of the SC as the senior member of the JC. The initial draft of the interim statute had said that the seniormost judge of the SC will be a junior member of the JC and a legal expert nominated by the PM and a legal expert nominated by the NBA were to be senior to him in the JC.
CJ Dilip Kumar Paudel had yesterday submitted the SC’s recommendation to PM Koirala.
The SC had said judges should be impeached on grounds of incompetence, misbehaviour and failure to discharge duties, that the CJ be appointed by the JC rather than by the PM. The court wanted to make the SC’s annual report public as practised now and opposed submitting it to the PM, allowing the parliament to discuss it.
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