{"id":55782,"date":"2026-09-29T18:53:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55782"},"modified":"2026-09-29T18:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:08:48","slug":"former-cj-rana-was-not-arrested-but-moved-to-safety-clarifies-minister-pokharel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/former-cj-rana-was-not-arrested-but-moved-to-safety-clarifies-minister-pokharel\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Former CJ Rana was not arrested but moved to safety&#8217;, clarifies Minister Pokharel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 29: The government has clarified that former Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra Shumsher Rana was neither arrested nor taken into custody, but was moved to a secure location after a security threat was reported against him.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokharel, also Spokesperson of the government, said so today while responding to the queries of journalists while making public the cabinet decisions.<br \/>\nReiterating that former CJ Rana was relocated for his own safety, Minister Pokharel shared that Rana had received a security threat through a text message on his mobile phone, following which, he added, security personnel moved him to a safe location.<\/p>\n<p>Rana&#8217;s family had also submitted a request seeking additional security, informed Pokharel. &#8220;He was not arrested or taken into custody. As his family had also requested additional security, he was taken to a safe place as a precautionary security measure,&#8221; explained the Minister.<br \/>\nMinister Pokharel went on to clarify that the threat received by Rana was not from the Gen-Z group but from an unidentified group.<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 29: The government has clarified that former Chief Justice (CJ) Cholendra Shumsher Rana was neither arrested nor taken into custody, but was moved to a secure location after a security threat was reported against him. Minister for Education and Sports, Sasmit Pokharel, also Spokesperson of the government, said so today while responding to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55782","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\/55782"}],"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=55782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55790,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55782\/revisions\/55790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}