Court’s verdict in favour of Italian contractor company CMC

Kathmandu, December 22 : The Patan High Court has issued an interim order preventing the government to freeze the surety amount of Italian contractor company CMC, the firm responsible to construct the tunnel of Melamchi Drinking Water Project.
Hearing the writ filed on behalf of the CMC, Chief Judge of the Patan High Court Prakash Kumar Gurung issued the directive on December 21 not to implement the government decision to seize the surety amount by Sunday.
Registrar of the Patan High Court Baburam Dahal said that both the sides of the case have been summoned at the court on Sunday, issuing directive not to implement the government decision until then.
It is said that the CMC had informed the Melamchi Drinking Water Project to scrap the agreement some two weeks ago.
Meanwhile, former king Gyanendra Shah’s daughter Prenana Rajyalaxmi Shah has lodged an application in the Supreme Court’s constitutional bench to review the SC’s prior verdict on the decision to give the land received in her dowry to the Nepal Trust.
Shah has lodged the petition at the SC naming the Office of the Prime Minister and Office of the Council of Ministers, Office of the Nepal Trust and others as the defendants stating that verdict was made by overriding her fundamental rights. RSS