KATHMANDU: Chief Justice Cholendra Shumser JB Rana today assigned hearings on all sorts of cases including the habeas corpus ones.
He has assigned nine benches for hearings, but not any of them is for himself. Of the assigned benches, one is full, seven are division and remaining one is single.
Though hearing at the apex court has remained suspended since the afternoon of October 24 as judges refusing to be its part over the allegations that the CJ sought his share in the expansion of the Council of the Ministers, the court has the records of hearings on the cases relating to the habeas corpus cases during this period.
Meanwhile, the Nepal Bar Association (NBA) has organized a protest program in front of Supreme Court. But, Nepal Police pushed lawyers back to NBA office, and used minor force to remove them from entering Supreme Court premises.
