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The Supreme Court (SC) issued an order to the government to promulgate law in order to provide relief to the victim of ongoing conflict in the country.
Acting upon a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a displaced journalist and a teacher from Doti and Ramechhap districts, Bhim Prakash Oli and Keshav Lama, a division bench of Justices Min Bahadur Rayamajhi and Rajendra Kumar Bhandari issued the order on Friday.
“Promulgate necessary law to define conflict victims and categorise their status in order to provide relief to them,” the bench ordered.
Pleading on behalf of the petitioner, advocates Raju Prasad Chapagain and Tek Tamrakar argued that the ongoing conflict has become a major problem in the country and that should be settled through legal and political means and demanded the court’s order to form law in this regard.
Due to the conflict, we have lost our right to life and equality, though the Constitution has guaranteed these rights, the petitioner claimed.
“They moved the apex court as they could not get relief from the government,” said Chapagain.
They had demanded the government either to provide opportunities for jobs abroad or provide them with any other means of sustenance.
The insurgency that erupted in 1996 had already claimed lives of more than 13,000 people displaced thousands.