The Supreme Court (SC) has revoked the habeas corpus petition filed by daughter of the arrested Hemanta Prakash Oli, the third-ranked leader of Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN and the party's central command in-charge.
A joint bench of Justices Anil Kumar Sinha and Tanka Moktan hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by Oli's daughter Bipana seeking her dad's release has ordered revocation of the petition on Wednesday.
The SC on March 28 had ordered the government to produce Oli before the court within three days. The police had accordingly produced Oli before the court on Wednesday.
A joint team of the Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Special Bureau and Kavre Police had arrested eight persons including Oli from Kavrepalanchowk on March 23. 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.
The police had recovered a loaded Japanese pistol, its magazine, 21 rounds of bullets, gelignite (blasting gelatin) and detonators from the Mahindra Scorpio jeep (Ba 17 Cha 4893) they were travelling on.
The police claim that Oli was carrying the pistol, and suspect that the same pistol was used while planning the bomb in front of the Ncell head office in Nakkhu on February 22 that killed one person. They say one of the four persons, who had come on motorcycles, had pulled the pistol on security guard at Ncell and planted the bomb.
Cases of organized crime, bombing, arms and ammunition, and crime against the state have been lodged against Oli at the Lalitpur District Court. The court on March 24 granted a judicial custody for eight days on those cases against Oli.
