Kathmandu, April 24: The Supreme Court validated the decision of Energy Minister to remove three members at the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) Board of Directors from post, citing their non-cooperation in the government efforts to end power outage.
In a response to a writ petition filed by Laxman Prasad Agrawal, Manoj Kumar Mishra and Suraj Lamichhane against the Ministry decision, the SC division bench headed by Chief Justice Sushila Karki and consisted of judge Purushottam Bhandari issued a verdict on Sunday in the favour of the government.
With the apex court’s verdict, the trio’s attempt to get a legal permission to get back to the posts became unsuccessful.
The Ministry on last December 19 decided to sack them, reasoning their non-cooperation in its effort to end load-shedding and accusing them for calling the NEA meetings one-sidedly.
Bhakta Bahadur Pun, Chetraj Joshi and Umesh Prasad Thani have already replaced the three as per the Ministry decision. RSS
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