{"id":428641,"date":"2026-04-23T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=428641"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:10:11","slug":"sc-issues-show-cause-notice-on-writ-petition-against-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/04\/23\/428641.html","title":{"rendered":"SC issues show cause notice on writ petition against Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> The Supreme Court (SC) has issued a show cause notice on a writ petition filed against the appointment of Dr Narayan Datt Kandel as Attorney General. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Supreme-Court-of-Nepal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374597\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Supreme-Court-of-Nepal.jpg 720w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Supreme-Court-of-Nepal-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Supreme-Court-of-Nepal-340x191.jpg 340w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Supreme-Court-of-Nepal-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The writ petition was filed questioning Dr Kandel&#8217;s qualification for the post. A single bench of Justice Kumar Regmi issued the order on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spokesperson at SC, Arjun Prasad Koirala, informed that both sides were called to discuss whether to issue an interim order on April 30. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three separate writ petitions were filed on Wednesday against Kandel&#8217;s appointment to the post of Attorney General, to which the SC issued a show cause order after a preliminary hearing on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advocates, including Shivaraj Baral, Madhav Basnet and Dipak Joshi, had filed the petitions, questioning Dr Kandel&#8217;s qualification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In the writ petition, they argued Dr Kandel had not met the criteria of 15-years of continuous legal practice to be qualified for the post of Attorney General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single bench of Justice Kumar Regmi issued the order on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":374597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-428641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428641"}],"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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428642,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428641\/revisions\/428642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428641"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=428641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}