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Supreme Court Issues Stay Order To DRI
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 9, 2013: the Supreme Court of Nepal held a hearing on the petition filed by Shambhu Thapa stating the Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has raided his legal firm, and had taken away the most sensitive documents of his clients. The Supreme Court held the hearing on the petition on the same day the legal practitioner had filed it.
Hearing on the petition filed by Shambhu Thapa, a single bench of Justice Prakash Wosti issued a stay order to the DRI not to take any actions on the letter handed to Sambhu Thapa at the time of the raid on his legal firm, and ordered the DRI to present all the documents and equipment its officials had taken away from the law firm to the apex court.
DRI had raided the law firm run by Sambhu Thapa on the suspicion of evading taxes. Nepalese professionals have been very smart to evade the tax. Most of the professionals such as lawyers, engineers and doctors hardly pay taxes. So, raiding any professional firm is a welcomed business if DRI suspects of such a firm evading tax.
Instead of coolly following the legal procedure against the raid of the DRI on the law firm, legal professionals have been showing their muscle power. They have flooded in the Supreme Court of Nepal to put pressure on the apex court. They have objected to the raid instead of showing the proper documents of not evading taxes.
