Kathmandu, July 28 -- Rumours of an impending impeachment motion against Supreme Court justices have spilled into the international arena, turning an internal judicial dispute into a high-stakes confrontation.

The escalating controversy follows a joint statement issued on Friday by three prominent global human rights organisations-Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Commission of Jurists-claiming they received credible information that three apex court justices were being pressured to resign under threat of impeachment.

However, they have not made public the reports or any other evidence on which they based their claims. Talking to Kantipur, a representative of one of the organisations said that the joint st...