Kathmandu, Sept. 29 -- Opposition parties criticised the government in parliament on Monday following the unexplained police detention of former chief justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana, demanding an immediate official explanation for what they termed an unlawful step against the rule of law.

Opposition lawmakers in both the House of Representatives and National Assembly condemned the midnight action as 'an authoritarian overreach executed under the pretext of security threats,' but lawmakers from the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) maintained a complete silence regarding the controversy.

During Monday's sessions of both chambers, members from the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML, Nepali Communist Party (NCP), Shram Sanskriti Party, and Rast...