The Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday has ordered the government to release two ministers of the royal cabinet.

A division bench of Justices Sarada Prasad Pundit and Badri Kumar Basnet ordered the government to release former Home Minister Kamal Thapa and minister for Local Development Tanka Dhakal saying there were no legal grounds to keep them under detention.

The government had arrested five ministers of the royal government in the charge of conspiring against the pro-democracy movement of the country.

Thapa and Dhakal filed habeas corpus writ petitions at the SC on June 5th alleging that the government detained them illegally.

Then home minister Thapa and local development minister Dhakal were arrested on May 12 along with three other former ministers of the King’s cabinet, Ramesh Nath Pandey, Sirish Shumsher Rana and Nikshay Shumsher Rana and were sent to 90-day detention.

Three ministers were released on June 4th. A full bench of the SC comprising of Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Poudel and Justices Min Bahadur Raymajhi, Ram Nagina Singh, Anup Raj Sharma and Khil Raj Regmi gave the release order.