Kathmandu, Nepal: Senior-most Justice of the Supreme Court (SC) Deepak Raj Joshee sat on six-day casual leave after Sunday. His 15-day leave was ended on Friday.
Chief Justice nominee Joshee had gone on a 15-day leave after being rejected by the Parliamentary Hearing Committee (PHC) for the post of Chief Justice (CJ).
Joshee has said that he is not going to resign from the post as senior justice at the Supreme Court but awaiting the decision of the Constitutional Council (CC) which had nominated him for the post of chief justice.
As Joshee remained adamant not to resign from the post, the constitutional council has not become able to recommend another senior justice in the post of the chief justice.
The Parliamentary Hearing Committee had rejected Joshee’s recommendation as chief justice alleging him of incompetent in the post through the majority process.
Om Prakash Mishra, who is considered as the senior-most justice after Joshee, has assumed the charge of acting Chief justice.
