{"id":45634,"date":"2026-04-09T12:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45634"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:31:05","slug":"oli-ex-home-minister-lekhak-walk-free-after-court-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/oli-ex-home-minister-lekhak-walk-free-after-court-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Oli, Ex-Home Minister Lekhak Walk Free After Court Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, April, 9:\u00a0 CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak were released from police custody on Thursday after authorities acted on a Supreme Court directive.<\/p>\n<p>Kathmandu District Police Range Chief Ramesh Thapa said both leaders were freed on bail after receiving formal instruction from the government attorney, in line with the court\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>The two had been arrested on March 27 (Chaitra 14) in connection with allegations of a deadly crackdown during the Gen-Z movement held last Bhadra. Oli, who was prime minister at the time, was admitted to hospital the same day due to illness, while Lekhak was held at Police Battalion No. 2 in Maharajgunj.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Binod Sharma and Sunil Pokharel ordered authorities not to extend their remand, paving the way for their release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, April, 9:\u00a0 CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak were released from police custody on Thursday after authorities acted on a Supreme Court directive. Kathmandu District Police Range Chief Ramesh Thapa said both leaders were freed on bail after receiving formal instruction from the government attorney, in line with the [&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-45634","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\/45634"}],"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=45634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45636,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45634\/revisions\/45636"}],"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=45634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}