Kathmadnu, May 25 -- The Supreme Court on Monday invalidated the arrest warrant issued against former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his wife Arzu Rana Deuba, ruling that they cannot be arrested based on the warrant issued by the Kathmandu District Court on April 6.

A division bench of Justices Mahesh Sharma Poudel and Nityananda Pandey issued the interim order in response to a petition filed by Deuba on May 1.

In its order, the Supreme Court said the arrest warrant had automatically become inactive, noting that the legal procedure and format required under criminal procedure rules had not been properly followed while seeking and issuing the warrant.

The court also said the Department of Money Laundering Investigation and the Ka...