Amid protests by NBA, Chief Justice Rana forms 10 benches

KATHMANDU: Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana has formed a total of ten benches to hear as many as 279 cases for Tuesday. 

Despite the calls for his ‘immediate’ resignation by the Nepal Bar Association (NBA), an umbrella organization of lawyers, Chief Justice Rana has been assigning cases to his fellow justices at the Supreme Court (SC) for the past two weeks.

The justices at the apex court, however, have been hearing only the habeas corpus writ petition following the public outcry. They boycotted all the benches for the initial one week. 

The NBA has been staging protests on the SC premises for the past weeks demanding CJ Rana step down as the chief of the judiciary. 

Rana was embroiled in controversy of late after he was accused of claiming a share in the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led Cabinet.