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Supreme Court Stops Enforcement Of Two Clauses Of Agreement
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 9, 2013: on the eve of the visit of the Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to Nepal, a single bench of Justice Tarka Raj Bhatta of the Supreme Court of Nepal issued a stay order to the office of the Council of Ministers, and the office of the Prime Minister not to implement two clauses such as 21 and 25 of the 28-clause agreement reached between the secretaries of the home ministers of both Nepal and India in Kathmandu on June 1, 2013, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today. The Indian External Affairs Minster was supposed to sign off the implementation of these two clauses.
The clause 21 is for modernizing the immigration office at the international airport in Kathmandu, and the clause 25 is for setting up Indian immigration check posts at Lumbini and Pashupatinagar.
The ruling of the single bench of the Supreme Court of Nepal has said that the two clauses 21 and 25 need the test of their constitutionality.
Advocate Shree Prasad Pandit had filed a petition at the Supreme Court of Nepal stating the contents of the two clauses have the long term effects on Nepal; so, only the parliament could approved such agreements not the secretaries of the home ministry.
