KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 16
The Supreme Court issued an order to register the writ on civic poll that was rejected earlier.
A single bench of SC Justice Ishwar Prasad Khatiwada issued the order to register the writ petition related to local election, shared SC Spokesperson Baburam Dahal.
According to him, the writ petition was earlier rejected on February 9. "It is rational to resolve the issue related to the tenure of local level office-bearers by interpreting constitutional and legal provisions through judicial review," reads the apex court order.
"It is not appropriate to settle such issue related to the constitution and law by rejecting the application at the administrative level without bringing this into the judicial process".
It may be noted that Mayor of Bhangaha municipality of Mahottari, Sanjeev Kumar Sah had attempted to register a writ petition demanding not to conduct local election in a single phase.
He argued that conducting local election announced for May would deprive them of their right to complete the constitutionally-stipulated five-year term.
The government had decided to hold the local election on May 13.
The civic poll was held in three phases in 2017. In the past election, the civic poll was held late on 16 June 2017 in the then Province 2, recently named Madhes province.
Dahal informed that the writ petition of Mayor Sah could now be registered.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 17, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
