CIAA Chief Lokman Singh Karki, a Supreme Court (SC) official supposed to visit the house of anti-graft body chief to paste court summmons has gone out of contact.The SC was apparently preparing to visit karki’s house today for the second time to paste court summons.The court official, Shambhu Khatri, had promised over phone to meet at Kathmandu Metropolitan City Ward-10 office at around 11 am but went out of contact, the court sources said.“Now his mobile phone is switched off. He has not come in contact. All the court documents are with him,” the source added. The team had returned without pasting the SC order yesterday after finding that the house was rented out.The court team reached Karki’s house on Wednesday in New Baneshwor after he repeatedly refused to receive it on various contexts.
Advocate Om Prakash Aryal, on November 24, 2015, had re-registered an appeal seeking a review of Karki’s appointment after his initial petition was quashed by SC. Following the appeal, a bench of Justices Dipak Kumar Karki, Biswambhar Shrestha and Ishwar Prasad Khatiwada on August 26 asked the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of General Administration to present documents, including the Cabinet minute, related to Karki’s appointment.Government initially said the documents were lost while they were shifting documents from the earthquake-ravaged building. But after SC’s warned to take action against the concerned government bodies if the appointment files were not produced before it, the Prime Minister’s Office dispatched all relevant minutes to the SC.SC had also send court summons to both Karki and Aryal. While Aryal received the summons, Karki had refused to receive it on various pretexts.