Former PM Oli remanded in judicial custody for five days as protests proceed throughout Nepal

Nepal’s former Prime Minister Okay.P. Sharma Oli was remanded in judicial custody for 5 days by the Kathmandu District Court docket on Sunday (March 29, 2026), whilst protests proceed to erupt in numerous components of the nation over the arrests.

Mr. Oli and former House Minister Ramesh Lekhak have been arrested on Saturday (March 28, 2026) for his or her alleged involvement in suppressing the Gen Z motion of September 8 and 9 final 12 months, during which 76 folks, together with round two dozen youths, have been killed.

The arrests got here a day after the newly shaped Balendra Shah authorities determined to implement the report of the probe fee into the Gen Z protests in its first cupboard assembly.

Mr. Lekhak was introduced earlier than the district court docket looking for remand for ten days to hold out additional investigation into their alleged involvement within the incidents of killings. He was additionally remanded in custody for 5 days. Nonetheless, ex-PM Oli nearly attended the district court docket session as a consequence of his deteriorating well being situations, in response to Deepak Kumar Shrestha, info officer on the district court docket.

Mr. Oli is presently present process medical remedy at Tribhuvan College Educating Hospital in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, as his well being situations deteriorated when he was taken to the hospital on Saturday (March 28, 2026) for a well being check-up following the arrest.

“He’s a submit renal transplant affected person with hydronephrosis, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, atrial fibrillation with APC [on treatment] and cholelithiasis,” reads an announcement issued by the hospital.

He’ll stay within the hospital in the course of the five-day custody.

Staff of the Communist Social gathering of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Lennist) held a protest in Maitighar towards the arrest of the occasion chair, Oli.

The CPN-UML has submitted a protest letter to the District Administration Workplaces (DAOs) throughout the nation, together with Kathmandu, to oppose the arrests.

Supporters of Nepal’s former Prime Minister and Chairman of the Communist Social gathering of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) Okay.P. Sharma Oli march escorted by police throughout a protest following Oli’s detention by police, who’re investigating whether or not he was negligent in stopping dozens of deaths in the course of the Gen Z protests, in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 29, 2026.
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Mr. Oli’s occasion has been staging protests throughout the nation demanding the rapid launch of Chairman Okay.P. Oli since Saturday (March 28, 2026).

Within the memorandum, the occasion has objected to the advice of the probe fee shaped to analyze the incidents of September 8-9, to take authorized motion towards excessive officers, together with Mr. Oli and Mr. Lekhak.

A separate habeas corpus has been registered on the Supreme Court docket demanding the discharge of former PM Oli after which House Minister Lekhak, in response to the court docket’s sources.

In one other growth, the Nepal police on Sunday (March 29, 2026) arrested former Power Minister and Nepali Congress chief Deepak Khadka in reference to a money-laundering case, native media reported.

The police detained Khadka for investigation after receiving a request from the Division of Cash Laundering Investigation. In the course of the Gen Z protest final 12 months, photographs and movies had surfaced exhibiting burnt fragments of banknotes on the residences of Khadka and former prime ministers Sher Bahadur Deuba and Pushpa Kamal Dahal. The findings have been reportedly later confirmed by forensic laboratory assessments.

Mr. Khadka was accused of receiving monetary advantages in trade for facilitating licences and contracts for initiatives whereas serving because the Minister for Power, Water Sources and Irrigation.