The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday ordered the government to reinstate 21 employees of Lalitpur Sub-Metropolis.

The court issued the order saying the process of relieving them from duty was illegal.

Twenty-one city police personnel had been dismissed from their jobs after the issuance of the letter of the Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of the Authority (CIAA) stating that their recruitment was illegally carried out in 2060 BS.

Acting upon a writ petition filed by the police personnel sacked from duty, a division bench of justices Balram KC and Ram Kumar Prasad Shah issued the order.

The petitioners had stated that the administration of the Sub-metropolitan relieved them from their duty without giving prior information or clarification.