KATHMANDU: Three leaders of the then unified CPN-Maoist on Friday told Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli that judicial cases from the war era against its leaders should not be dealt by regular courts of justice.

UCPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, CPN-Revolutionary Maoist Chairman Mohan Baidya and the then senior leader of the UCPN-M, Baburam Bhattarai, among others, met the Prime Minister and drew his attention toward some cases in which the regular courts delivered verdicts against some Maoist leaders.

"It was the sentiment of the Comprehensive Peace Accord that the war-era cases should be dealt by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP)," Dahal told reporters after the meeting, "But, some recent decisions of courts have made us, all Maoists, serious."

"A question has been raised if we move through regular court proceedings and trample on the sentiment of the Peace Accord... No any organ of the state should not go beyond this sentiment."

The Maoist leader added that the TRC Act may have some ambiguous languages about proceedings of such cases. The leaders, hence, urged the PM to amend the Act to specifically point out that the cases would be dealt by the transitional justice mechanisms only, not the regular courts.