{"id":416076,"date":"2025-09-03T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=416076"},"modified":"2025-09-03T07:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:22:32","slug":"sc-orders-shrestha-to-furnish-written-response-on-contempt-of-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/09\/03\/416076.html","title":{"rendered":"SC orders Shrestha to furnish written response on contempt of court case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"modal-header\">\n<div class=\"modal-title\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"modal-body container-fluid\">\n<div id=\"static-content-holder\" class=\"\">Kathmandu, Sept 2: The Supreme Court has ordered Senior Vice Chair of CPN (Maoist Centre), Narayan Kaji Shrestha, to furnish a written response on a contempt of court case.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">A division bench of justices Til Prasad Shrestha and Shreekant Paudel decided a hearing with prerogatives in a week after submission of Shrestha\u2019s response. A law student, Ayush Dahal, hailing from Morang district, had filed a case of contempt of court at SC over a Facebook post by Vice Chair Shrestha.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Dahal argued in the petition that Shrestha\u2019s post could erode trust in the judiciary because he had posted that justice delivery was not possible without bribing and exerting influence on the court. He demanded rigorous punishment for Shrestha, who is also the former Home Minister, as per Section 17 of the Judicial Administration Act, 2073.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">If Shrestha is found guilty, he would face one year of imprisonment as per the law.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 2: The Supreme Court has ordered Senior Vice Chair of CPN (Maoist Centre), Narayan Kaji Shrestha, to furnish a written response on a contempt of court case. A division bench of justices Til Prasad Shrestha and Shreekant Paudel decided a hearing with prerogatives in a week after submission of Shrestha\u2019s response. A law &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":357994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-416076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416077,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416076\/revisions\/416077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416076"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=416076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}