{"id":436926,"date":"2026-09-29T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=436926"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:25:06","slug":"former-cj-rana-was-not-arrested-but-moved-to-safety-clarifies-minister-pokharel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/29\/436926.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Former CJ Rana was not arrested but moved to safety&#8217;, clarifies Minister Pokharel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Sasmit-Pokhrel-1000x500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-436927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Sasmit-Pokhrel-1000x500-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Sasmit-Pokhrel-1000x500-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Sasmit-Pokhrel-1000x500-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathmandu, Sept 29: The government has clarified that former Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra Shumsher Rana was neither arrested nor taken into custody, but was moved to a secure location after a security threat was reported against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister for Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokharel, also Spokesperson of the government, said so today while responding to the queries of journalists while making public the cabinet decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reiterating that former CJ Rana was relocated for his own safety, Minister Pokharel shared that Rana had received a security threat through a text message on his mobile phone, following which, he added, security personnel moved him to a safe location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rana&#8217;s family had also submitted a request seeking additional security, informed Pokharel. &#8220;He was not arrested or taken into custody. As his family had also requested additional security, he was taken to a safe place as a precautionary security measure,&#8221; explained the Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Pokharel went on to clarify that the threat received by Rana was not from the Gen-Z group but from an unidentified group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 29: The government has clarified that former Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra Shumsher Rana was neither arrested nor taken into custody, but was moved to a secure location after a security threat was reported against him. Minister for Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokharel, also Spokesperson of the government, said so today while responding to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":436927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-436926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436926"}],"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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436928,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436926\/revisions\/436928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436926"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=436926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}