Suspended Chief Justice Rana summoned for questioning on August 31 (With video)

KATHMANDU: The Impeachment Recommendation Committee of the House of Representatives has decided to summon suspended Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana for questioning.

A meeting of the committee held on Wednesday has decided to call the suspended chief justice on August 31.

Lawmakers of the ruling coalition parties on February 13, 2022 had registered the impeachment motion against Rana levelling various 21 charges.

The Parliament on March 6 had formed the Impeachment Recommendation Committee to probe the charges leveled in the impeachment motion against the suspended chief justice.

The meeting of the 11-member committee formed by the House of Representatives to study the impeachment has endorsed the working procedure to submit the report to the Parliament by September 4.

The committee has decided to collect and study the evidence by August 30 for the same.

Ekwal Miya, Kalayani Kumari Khadka, Krishna Bhakta Pokharel, Pramod Sah, Min Bahadur Bishwokarma, Yasodha Gurung Subedi, Ram Bahadur Bista, Rekha Sharma, Lal Babu Pandit, Bishnu Prasad Paudel and Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe are the members of the committee.