Kathmandu, June 11 :

The Supreme Court today vacated its 10-day-old stay order against the government’s order to the Moon Drops Overseas not to send workers to South Korea.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Paudel and Tahir Ali Ansari issued the order to vacate previous SC stay order, issued on June 1 by a single bench of Judge Pawan Kumar Ojha, that had allowed the company to send workers to South Korea. The court said there is no need to continue the stay order issued by the single bench on June 1 because the issue is to be settled by the court while delivering a final decision.

The government, as per the Clause 20 of the Foreign Employment Act 1992, had simply ordered the manpower agency not to send workers to South Korea and therefore the issue would be decided in final decision of the case, the bench said.

Today’s decision prevents the Moon Drop Overseas company to send 695 trainee workers selected recently and the 167 workers who were selected in 2004 to South Korea.