Nepal SC stays impeachment motion, reinstates CJ Karki

Nepal's Supreme Court today ordered the reinstatement of the country's first woman Chief Justice Sushila Karki and directed Parliament to put on hold the impeachment motion filed against her as the tussle between the legislature and the judiciary took a dramatic turn.
Just hours after the Supreme Court's interim order, Chief Justice Karki resumed the office this evening.
A single member bench of Justice Cholendra Shamsher Rana issued the order stating that the impeachment move was against the spirit of Nepal's Constitution.
His order came in response to a writ petition against the motion to impeach Karki.
Advocates Kanchan Krishna Neupane and Sunil Ranjan Singha had moved the apex court a day after the impeachment motion was registered at the Parliament Secretariat on April 30.

Nepal's first woman Chief Justice Karki was suspended after an impeachment motion against her was registered in Parliament by two major ruling parties that accused her of "interfering" with the executive and issuing "prejudiced" verdicts.
As a fallout of the impeachment motion registered by the lawmakers of the ruling Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Bimalendra Nidhi had resigned over his dissatisfaction with the move.
Also, Nepal's Rastriya Prajatantra Party had quit the Prachanda-led government, a day after withdrawing its support to it over the impeachment motion against Karki.