Nepal, Aug. 20 -- Nepal's Supreme Court is facing a dispute over which bench should hear petitions challenging a government commission tasked with investigating the assets of politicians and senior officials.

A two-justice bench had ordered that the case be heard by a three-justice full bench. But the Supreme Court administration has recommended sending it to the constitutional bench, triggering objections from the Nepal Bar Association and lawyers involved in the case.

The dispute has left the case in limbo even as an interim order has halted the commission's work.

On July 10, justices Tek Prasad Dhungana and Shreekanta Poudel ordered the commission to suspend investigations into submitted asset declarations and barred it from recomme...