Kathmandu, Nov. 8 -- State mechanisms across the country are grappling with profound anxiety, institutional instability, and a pervasive climate of fear following a series of controversial government interventions, abrupt leadership removals, and emerging judicial scandals.

Civil servants, police personnel, and judicial bodies find themselves trapped in an atmosphere of constant apprehension regarding arbitrary executive actions.

The sequence of events began on October 30 when Dinesh Rajauriya, director general of the Department of Water Resources and Irrigation, travelled to Siraha for project monitoring. Police arrested him on the spot and rushed him overnight to Kathmandu. On the same day, Krishna Prasad Rijal, director of the Sunako...