Kathmandu, March 7: A writ against CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has been registered at the Supreme Court today.
Fourteen persons including Gyanendra Raj Aran of Ramechhap have filed the writ naming the Maoist Centre Chairman Prachanda as the defendant. It is said the writ has been filed taking over the subject of Prachanda’s statement that he made some time back.
In a public meeting, Prachanda had claimed that he would take responsibility of taking lives of nearly 5,000 people in the ten year’s long People’s War.
The Supreme Court has fixed coming Thursday as the date of hearing into the writ.
Meanwhile, most of the former senior leaders of CPN (Maoist Centre) have joined hands and protested against the move. Prachanda himself and other leaders have issued a statement saying that the writ was against the spirit of Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed between CPN (Maoist Centre) and then seven party alliance government.
The CPA was the major document through which Maoist stopped their 10 year People’s War, an arms struggle to overthrow the 240-year monarchy and turn the country into federal system of governance.
However, people have been demanding for justice for atrocities like murders, rape by cadres from Maoist Centre. The Centre is demanding for gross amnesty for all which have been contested in courts.
