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Vice-President’s Written Reply to Supreme Court
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The state-run newspaper ‘Gorkhapatra’ on August 11, 2009 has reported that the Vice-president has sent a written reply to the Supreme Court of Nepal concerning the case of the contempt of court filed against him for defending the use of Hindi for taking the oath of office; in the reply he has said that he has made the healthy comments on the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal on the use of language in taking the oath of office. The vice-president also has said that the Supreme Court of Nepal has encroached on his rights to use Hindi for taking the oath of office. The Supreme Court of Nepal has ruled that the taking of the oath of office in Hindi by the Vice-president is unconstitutional.
It is surprising to most of the democratic-minded Nepalis that the Supreme Court of Nepal has ruled the case of the Vice-president taking the oath of office in Hindi so fast and timely but it has not started even the hearing on the most important case of the President violating the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007 directly writing a letter to the Chief of Army Staff bypassing the Prime Minister on May 3, 2009.
The legislature-parliament needs to enact a law on making the provision for hearing any cases registered at any law court after certain time so that many cases will not remain unheard at the courts. For example, the case of the Chief of Army Staff Rukmangad Katuwal reducing his age by the direct order of the then king Birendra has remained pending at the Supreme Court of Nepal for three years, as the army headquarters did not send his personal dossier to the Supreme Court so far. Such things would not happen if a law binds the court to hear such cases within certain time.
