Sunil Sharma freed

KATHMANDU: Police on Wednesday released Sunil Sharma, who was arrested from the Tribhuvan International Airport a few days ago for masterminding the kidnapping of six board members of the Biratnager-based Nobel Academy. The district attorney’s office ordered police to release Sharma, saying that those who lodged a complaint against him have withdrawn it. — HNS

PIL against govt

Kathmandu: Advocates Madhav Kumar Basnet and Binod Phuyal today filed a Public Interest Litigation at the Supreme Court seeking its order to the government to hand over foreign nationals, arrested on criminal charges, to the foreign countries only after prosecuting them in Nepal.

The petitioners have cited two cases in which the Nepal government handed over an Indian and a Chinese national arrested on criminal charges in Nepal to their respective countries without prosecuting them here. They have claimed that such handover is illegal. The advocates have also sought order from the SC to the

authorities to abide by the Extradition Act 1988. — HNS