{"id":432584,"date":"2026-07-14T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=432584"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:46:08","slug":"sc-annuls-governments-decision-to-stop-public-advertisements-to-private-media-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/07\/14\/432584.html","title":{"rendered":"SC annuls government&#8217;s decision to stop public advertisements to private media outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> The Supreme Court has ruled that the government&#8217;s circular to stop public advertisements to private media outlets be annulled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/supreme-court.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-429087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/supreme-court.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/supreme-court-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/supreme-court-768x341.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A division bench of Supreme Court Justices Sharanga Subedi and Nripadhwaj Niraula has made the ruling in response to a petition filed on April 1, 2026, demanding annulment of the government&#8217;s decision not to give public advertisements to private media outlets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Supreme Court Spokesperson Arjun Prasad Koirala, the full text of the verdict is due. Advocate Anantaraj Luintel, on behalf of the Media Society, had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court stating that the government&#8217;s decision to give government advertisements only to government media outlets was illegal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government had decided to publish and broadcast government advertisements only through government media outlets and issued a circular from the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government had decided to publish and broadcast government advertisements only through government media outlets and issued a circular from the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":429087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-432584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432584"}],"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=432584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432585,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432584\/revisions\/432585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432584"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=432584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}