The Constitutional Bench has ruled that suspended Chief Justice Rana cannot resume office mainly on two grounds: First, the impeachment motion filed against Rana at the HoR has not concluded yet and that there has been a decision earlier to carry forward the motion in the new parliament. Second, the administrative chief of the federal parliament does not have rights to exercise the rights of a sovereign parliament.

The provision of impeachment against key office-bearers of the state has been made in the constitution to ensure separation of power and check and balance among the key state organs. But there is no mention of a deadline in the constitution to conclude impeachment motions once they are registered in parliament. This is a major loophole in the provision for impeachment that must be plugged if any misuse of this provision is to be avoided in the future.

KATHMANDU, Dec 8: The Supreme Court remained tense on Wednesday after a sudden move of the federal parliament secretariat to give a letter to suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana that the impeachment motion against him was rendered ineffective.

KATHMANDU, Dec 7: The impeachment motion against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana that was registered in parliament has become inactive.

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: Chairman of CPN-UML, KP Sharma Oli has expressed his anger saying that Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota of the House of Representatives kept silent on an issue as important as impeachment against the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana for six months.

KATHMANDU, Sept 18:  A team of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has reached the residence of the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana after learning that he has been placed under house arrest.

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: The Impeachment Recommendation Committee of the House of Representatives has finished taking the statement of the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: The members of the Impeachment Recommendation Committee of the House of Representatives are divided on whether or not to submit the report on the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana.

KATHMANDU, Sept 13: The Impeachment Recommendation Committee of the House of Representatives is going to call former justices and former officials of the Nepal Bar Association, who were named by the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana while recording his statement.

KATHMANDU, Sept 4: The meeting of the Impeachment Recommendation Committee of the federal parliament has begun the third day of testimony of the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana. The meeting of the committee is being held in the hall of the parliamentary committee at Singhadurbar.

KATHMANDU, Sept 1: The Impeachment Recommendation Committee will continue recording the statement of the suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra SJB Rana on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 1: The Impeachment Recommendation Committee of the House of Representatives (HoR) has started recording the statement of suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana at the federal parliament secretariat for the second consecutive day on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, March 14: The Human Rights and Peace Society has demanded legal action against the suspended Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana by passing the impeachment motion registered in parliament against him.

KATHMANDU, Dec 3: Lawmakers belonging to ruling Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN (Maoist Center) have said that preparations are underway to file an impeachment motion against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21: President Chandeshwor Shrestha of Nepal Bar Association said that the trend of middlemen in the judiciary will not end until the rights of the administrations of the Supreme Court are curtailed.

KATHMANDU, Nov 14: Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana has fixed benches for hearing all types of cases including those related to habeas corpus scheduled for Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 9: Justices of the Supreme Court (SC) have once again refused to hear any of the cases scheduled for today by Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana. The chief justice had constituted nine benches to hear different cases on Tuesday. Among them, eight are joint benches while one is the chief justice’s single bench.

KATHMANDU, Nov 9: Supreme Court judges have even boycotted a joint bench with Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher JB Rana.

KATHMANDU, Nov 8: Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana scheduled six benches including for himself on Monday. The chief justice scheduled four joint benches and two single benches to oversee the cases related to habeas corpus on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Oct 31: Lawyers associated with Nepal Bar Association (NBA) have staged a protest by tying black ribbons around their arms, demanding the resignation of Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana.

KATHMANDU, Oct 30: Supreme Court justices seeking the resignation of Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana did not attend any hearing on Friday. Cases including those requiring habeas corpus have been affected due to the justices’ protest.

KATHMANDU, Oct 27: Members of the Bibeksheel Sajha Party staged a demonstration in Maitighar, Kathmandu, today following the controversy surrounding Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana.

KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana has clarified that he does not have any involvement in making Gajendra Hamal a minister.

DemandKATHMANDU, Oct 23: Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra SJB Rana has landed in a fresh controversy after former CJs raised questions over his professional integrity and commitment to uphold the independence of the judiciary. parliament fulfill its constitutional obligation if he does not step down

KATHMANDU, Oct 5: The Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has urged the Nepal government and the Supreme Court to free the judiciary from the influence of politics.

Hearing continues on parliament dissolution case

KATHMANDU, July 26: Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana and six other justices of the Supreme Court (SC) are excluded from the list of justices who will hear the review petition filed by the government against SC’s decision to release murder-convict former Armed Police Force (APF) DIG Ranjan Koirala by waiving his jail term.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana has said that the Supreme Court's directives to the government authorities on various issues should be properly enforced.

KATHMANDU, Dec 12: The Judicial Council (JC), which is headed by Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana, has begun searching for alternatives to the candidacy of Padam Prasad Baidik for appointment as a Supreme Court justice.

KATHMANDU, Sept 29: Arguing that the testing of court orders by irrelevant individuals, authorities and processes would undermine the independence of the judiciary, Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana has urged one and all to respect court orders.