The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the government to produce the third ranked leader of the Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN and in-charge of the central command Hemanta Prakash Oli before the court within three days.
Hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by Oli's daughter Bipana on Wednesday, a single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana on Thursday issued a show-cause notice and ordered the government to produce Oli before the court within three days.
A joint team of the Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Special Bureau and Kavre Police had arrested eight persons including Oli from Kavrepalanchowk Saturday. Dharma Raj Rajbahak, Ram Krishna Khatiwada, Shankar Adhikari, Bijay Shrestha, Lalit Tamang, Sanjeev Karki, Dev Ghimire, Lokendra Khadka and Oli were nabbed after a tipoff when they were coming to Kathmandu.
Oli is ranked third in the party after Chand and Khadga Bahadur Bishwokarma, and has taken responsibility of the bomb explosion in front of Ncell head office that killed a man, and other explosions inside the Kathmandu Valley.
