The government produced Himal Sharma, general secretary of the Maoist student wing, the All Nepal National Independent Students Union (ANNISU-R), before a Supreme Court bench Monday.

Sharma was taken to the court amidst tight security for hearing on a habeas corpus writ petition. A joint bench of Justices Kedar Prasad Giri and Tapa Bahadur Magar concluded the hearing on the case, reports said.

Sharma, who was arrested from Asan, Kathmandu, two-and-half-years ago, had been detained incommunicado until March this year when the government disclosed his whereabouts.

He was brought to Kathmandu from Gorkha two weeks earlier.

Acting on a case filed by the government accusing him of involving in ‘terrorist’ activities including in an explosion at a police post in Kathmandu, the Special Court had on Sunday allowed the authorities to detain him for additional 25 days.