Supreme Court Receives Writ Against Former Dignitaries for Illegally Claiming State Funds for Foreign Treatment

Kathmandu. A writ has been filed in the Supreme Court alleging that former dignitaries, including former President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, illegally took treatment expenses from the state treasury for treatment abroad. 

In the writ filed by Saroj Neupane at the Supreme Court on Thursday, former President Ram Baran Yadav, former Prime Ministers KP Sharma Oli and Jhalanath Khanal, and former Deputy Prime Minister Sujata Koirala have been named as respondents. 

They received treatment expenses through a cabinet decision at a time when there was no procedure for the state to bear the cost of treatment abroad. Supreme Court Spokesperson Arjun Prasad Koirala informed that the writ has been scheduled for hearing on Friday. 

It has been a practice for former state officials to go abroad for treatment even when treatment was possible within the country, and for their treatment expenses to be borne by a cabinet decision. 

Although such activities were stopped by the Public Health Act enacted in 2075 BS, former dignitaries continued to receive treatment abroad according to the provisions in another procedure.