{"id":44959,"date":"2026-03-29T18:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=44959"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:41:47","slug":"court-allows-five-day-custody-of-oli-and-lekhak-for-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/court-allows-five-day-custody-of-oli-and-lekhak-for-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Allows Five-Day Custody of Oli and Lekhak for Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, March, 29:\u00a0<\/strong> The Kathmandu District Court has granted permission to detain K P Sharma Oli, chair of CPN-UML, and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak for five days to facilitate further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A single bench of Judge Anand Prasad Shrestha on Sunday approved the remand extension. Government prosecutors had sought a 10-day custody period for the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests follow a recommendation by an investigation commission, which alleged their involvement in the suppression of the Gen-Z movement. Acting on the report, police took both into custody on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March, 29:\u00a0 The Kathmandu District Court has granted permission to detain K P Sharma Oli, chair of CPN-UML, and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak for five days to facilitate further investigation. A single bench of Judge Anand Prasad Shrestha on Sunday approved the remand extension. Government prosecutors had sought a 10-day custody period for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44961,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44959\/revisions\/44961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}