KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court (SC) has decided to allow the extension of the ongoing cases’ statute of limitation, time-limit and date for appearance. With the SC’s decision, the statute of limitation, time-limit and date for appearance of the running cases will be extended until January 14.

A larger full bench of Chief Justice Prakashman Singh Raut, Senior Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla, Justices Kumar Regmi, Hari Prasad Phuyal, Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma, Dr Nahakul Subedi, Til Prasad Shrestha, Binod Sharma, Saranga Subedi, Abdul Aziz Musalman, Mahesh Sharma Paudel, Tek Prasad Dhungana, Sunil Kumar Pokhrel, Bal Krishna Dhakal, Nrip Dhowj Niraula, Nityananda Pandey, Meghraj Pokhrel, Shreekanta Paudel and Shanti Singh Thapa took this decision on Sunday.

The larger full bench of the SC decided to extend the timeline for 60 days (until January 14) by reviewing the report prepared by the SC officials including Balaji Prasad Pandey and others which proposed the extension of 30 days for statute of limitation, time-limit and date for appearance, SC Spokesperson Arjun Prasad Koirala confirmed.

The text of the SC’s order will be released on Monday.

As per the verdict, the time for document collection of the cases destroyed by the arson and vandalism happened on September 9 will be extended by 60 days.

The SC had already appealed to the stakeholders of the cases to help collect the documents of those cases.