Kathmandu, June 2
The Kathmandu District Court has quashed an earlier interim order allowing the Batas Organization to operate a hotel at a Pashupati dharamsala.
A bench of Judge Binod Kumar Pokhrel on Wednesday quashed the interim order passed by the Kathmandu District Court in favour of Batas Group on April 9.
The Pashupati Area Development Trust, the government authority governing the religious Pashupati area, has padlocked the Hotel Anand, a hotel operated by Batas Organization at a property owned by the trust.
The trust had terminated the contract that allowed the business conglomerate to operate the hotel there, but the company did not accept it and moved to court.
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Hearing the petition filed by the Pashupati Area Development Fund against the interim order, the bench of Judge Pokharel quashed the interim order saying that it was not in accordance with the law to allow the hotel to operate again as the agreement between the fund and Batas Organization had been breached.
With this order, the door for Batas Organization to run a hotel in Pashupati Dharamsala has closed.
