Court order to implement Citizenship Act

The Supreme Court on Thursday discontinued the interim order on authentication of bills relating to amendment of citizenship act, thereby paving way for its implementation.

A division bench of Justices Ananda Mohan Bhattarai and Kumar Regmi decided not to continue the interim order the SC had issued earlier, staying the implementation of bill authentication.

On June 4, Justice Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma had issued show cause notice and interlocutory order on the implementation of amendment of act.

On the recommendation of the Council of Ministers, President Ram Chandra Paudel had certified the bill on May 31, against which, senior advocates Surendra Bhandari and Bal Krishna Neupane had filed a writ petition.