Kathmandu, April 9 -- Former prime minister KP Sharma Oli and former home minister Ramesh Lekhak have been released on the condition that they will be present before the authorities when required.

According to Senior Superintendent of Police Ramesh Thapa, Kathmandu Police chief, they were released as per a Supreme Court order. Oli was handed over to his wife Radhika Shakya, and Lekhak to his wife Yashoda Lekhak.

Hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by the families of Oli and Lekhak, the court on Monday ordered their release after the additional five-day remand granted by the Kathmandu district court expired.

A bench of Justices Binod Sharma and Sunil Kumar Pokharel, while noting that the detention could not be deemed unlawful, orde...