{"id":51250,"date":"2026-07-14T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=51250"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:59:11","slug":"sc-annuls-governments-decision-to-stop-public-advertisements-to-private-media-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/sc-annuls-governments-decision-to-stop-public-advertisements-to-private-media-outlets\/","title":{"rendered":"SC annuls government&#8217;s decision to stop public advertisements to private media outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, July 14: The Supreme Court has ruled that the government&#8217;s circular to stop public advertisements to private media outlets be annulled.<\/p>\n<p>A division bench of Supreme Court Justices Sharanga Subedi and Nripadhwaj Niraula has made the ruling in response to a petition filed on April 1, 2026 demanding annulment of the government&#8217;s decision not to give public advertisements to private media outlets. According to Supreme Court Spokesperson Arjun Prasad Koirala, the full text of the verdict is due.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Anantaraj Luintel, on behalf of the Media Society, had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court stating that the government&#8217;s decision to give government advertisements only to government media outlets was illegal. The government had decided to publish and broadcast government advertisements only through government media outlets and issued a circular from the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, July 14: The Supreme Court has ruled that the government&#8217;s circular to stop public advertisements to private media outlets be annulled. A division bench of Supreme Court Justices Sharanga Subedi and Nripadhwaj Niraula has made the ruling in response to a petition filed on April 1, 2026 demanding annulment of the government&#8217;s decision not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51250","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\/51250"}],"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=51250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51252,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51250\/revisions\/51252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}