Kathmandu, April 9 -- Nepali Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Thursday sacked Deepak Kumar Sah, Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, on disciplinary charges upon recommendation from his party.

Nom de guerre Balen, the Nepali Prime Minister, sacked the member of his cabinet upon receiving a formal letter from party chair Rabi Lamichhane, based on findings of the party's central disciplinary commission.

The prime minister's secretariat said Sah was removed after the party found him in breach of its code of conduct and discipline.

According to the commission's study, Sah misused his office to continue his wife, Junu Shrestha, as a member of the Health Insurance Board, a position which had remained largely inactive for a lon...