{"id":48387,"date":"2026-05-25T18:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48387"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:46:04","slug":"supreme-court-issues-interim-order-halting-arrest-of-deuba-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/supreme-court-issues-interim-order-halting-arrest-of-deuba-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Issues Interim Order Halting Arrest of Deuba Couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 25 :\u00a0 The Supreme Court has issued an interim order directing authorities not to arrest former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his wife Arzu Rana Deuba.<\/p>\n<p>A joint bench of Justices Mahesh Sharma Paudel and Nityananda Pandey issued the order on Monday after hearing a writ petition filed through a legal representative challenging the arrest process.<\/p>\n<p>The petition argues that the Kathmandu District Court lacked jurisdiction to grant permission for arrest following action initiated by the Department of Money Laundering Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The couple had traveled to Singapore for medical treatment ahead of the election and have not yet returned to Nepal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 25 :\u00a0 The Supreme Court has issued an interim order directing authorities not to arrest former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his wife Arzu Rana Deuba. A joint bench of Justices Mahesh Sharma Paudel and Nityananda Pandey issued the order on Monday after hearing a writ petition filed through a legal representative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48387","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\/48387"}],"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=48387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48389,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48387\/revisions\/48389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}