KATHMANDU, March 27 -- The Supreme Court (SC) has explained that the land belonging to the Pashupati Mahasnan Pota Guthi land cannot be made Raitani Nambari land. "The SC upheld the decision made by Guthi Sansthan in 2070 BS that the land of Pashupati Mahasnan Pota Guthi should remain in the name of registered persons so that the ownership rights cannot be transferred to others.

The full text of the judgment passed by the full bench of Judges Kumar Regmi, Hari Prasad Phuyal, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Kumar Chudal, and Til Prasad Shrestha on April 30, 2023, was made public recently.

About 76 individuals, including Renuka Oli, a resident of Kathmandu Metropolitan City-4, had filed a writ petition at the SC. The court dismissed their writ petiti...