Mahiman Singh Bista, the Supreme Court employee who wrote an unauthorized letter to arrest Nagarik Unmukti Party (NUP) patron Resham Chaudhary last month, has been released on a bail of Rs 100,000.
On Monday, a bench of Judge Dinbandhu Baral of the Kathmandu District Court ordered Bista to post a bail bond of Rs 100,000, the court’s information officer Deepak Kumar Shrestha said.
Bista has already been released after posting the bail amount, Shrestha added.
The District Police Range, Kathmandu, had investigated Bista for document forgery and submitted its report to the District Government Attorney’s Office, Kathmandu.
After the government attorney filed a case against Bista at the district court on Monday, Justice Baral’s bench held a hearing and ordered Bista to post a bail bond of Rs 100,000.
Bista, a section officer in the Case and Writ Section of the Supreme Court, misused the court’s letterhead on April 30 and wrote a letter instructing police to arrest NUP patron Chaudhary for implementation of a previous court verdict. He visited the Nepal Police Headquarters at Naxal to deliver the letter himself. Bista said that he wrote the letter because he was pained by the Tikapur incident.
When Chaudhary arrived at the Nepal Academy in Kamaladi of Kathmandu later the same day for an event organized to announce the unification between the Janamat Party and the NUP, police arrested him and took him to Dilli Bazar Prison.
The sudden arrest and imprisonment of Chaudhary raised suspicions about the Supreme Court’s letter. Later, the Supreme Court clarified that the letter was unauthorized and wrote to the prison office to release Chaudhary.
The Supreme Court also sent a letter to the police instructing them to investigate Bista.
