Supreme Court has ordered not to forgive the crimes committed during the armed conflict period. It has denied changing the pronouncement given five years ago regarding the subject of Transitional Justice. To conclude the Transitional Justice, on 26 February 2015, the Supreme Court had decided to punish severe human rights violators during the armed conflict period and now the court has dismissed the petition made by the government to reconsider its decision.
The verdict was given by a jury of Kalyan Shrestha, Baidhyanath Upadhyay and Cholendra Sumsher JBR centred for the betterment of the victims of the armed conflict period. The pronouncement was considered a milestone for the victims and while the government attempted to convert this, it was denied by the Supreme Court on 26 April 2020. The panel of- Dipak Kumar Karki, Mira Khadka, Bishwambar Prasad Shrestha, Ishwar Prasad Khatiwada and Dr Anand Mohan Bhattarai were appealed for reconsideration but they repudiated the request.
The petition was on hearing since March 2016 which is now dismissed. Now, the government has to amend the previous code on the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons.
The Supreme Court declared that such a decade long violent revolt is considered a crime for which legal procedures will be involved and it cannot be absolved.
The court clarified that reconciliation cannot be forced upon the victims hurting their self-respect and the ones guilty of a severe crime cannot simply be forgiven.
The petition was made on 27 July 2015 during the government led by Sushil Koirala with Narahari Acharya as Minister of Law.