Kathmandu, November 16
Some lawmakers have accused Chief Justice Om Prakash Mishra of disrespecting the legislative body as he continued to assign significant cases to Justice Deepak Raj Joshee, whom the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee had rejected for the position of Chief Justice questioning his qualification.
Earlier, it was reported that Joshee had agreed to quit in his conversation with Law Minister Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal, but he did not and Mishra assigned cases to him, disrespecting the verdict of the legislative body, the lawmakers claim.
“Mishra got a chance to become the Chief Justice because of parliamentary supremacy [because the Hearing Committee rejected Joshee], but it is serious that he is moving against the supremacy,” a Hearing Committee member says, “Through informal channels, we have told him that it disrespected the court.”
They are also not satisfied with the Chief Justice as he assigned junior justices to deal with corruption cases.
Meanwhile, stakeholders including some senior justices of the apex court have claimed Mishra divides cases among benches under the influence of middlemen, promoting ‘bench shopping’, according to sources at the Supreme Court.
Two senior justices approached Mishra to express their dissatisfaction few days back, the source reports.
