{"id":84826,"date":"2026-08-07T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/?p=84826"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T03:38:09","slug":"supreme-court-orders-arrest-of-chairman-and-ceo-of-nepal-investment-mega-bank-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/08\/07\/84826\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court orders arrest of chairman and CEO of Nepal Investment Mega Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Supreme Court orders not to arrest Chairman and CEO of Nepal Investment Mega Bank <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Kathmandu.<strong>The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an interim order against the bank&#8217;s chairperson Prithivi Bahadur Pandey and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jyoti Prakash Pandey. <\/p>\n<p> The office-bearers of the bank had reached the Supreme Court claiming that they were preparing to arrest them at a time when a criminal investigation was underway related to the share auction process of Smart Telecom Pvt. Ltd. The court stayed their arrest for the time being. <\/p>\n<p> A single bench of Justice Tek Prasad Dhungana has not ordered to stop the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The court has summoned both the parties for a discussion on August 12, 2083, saying that it is necessary to hear the statements of both the parties on whether or not to arrest them while the investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p> Prior to this, the court issued a temporary interim order not to arrest the petitioners for the purpose of investigation. After further deliberations, the court will decide whether to continue the order or not. <\/p>\n<p> The bank is conducting a criminal investigation into the process related to the auction of shares in the hypothecation of Smart Telecom. Chairman Pandey, CEO Pandey and other officials of the bank had filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court claiming that they would be arrested in connection with the investigation. <\/p>\n<p> Pragya Raj Rajbhandari, poet Kumar Tibrewal, Dipankar Shakya Udaya, Shalikram Belbase and Shova Shrestha are also the petitioners in the writ petition.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court has also sought a written response from the opposition. The court has also directed to inform the concerned authorities about the court&#8217;s order. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court orders not to arrest Chairman and CEO of Nepal Investment Mega Bank Kathmandu.The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an interim order against the bank&#8217;s chairperson Prithivi Bahadur Pandey and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jyoti Prakash Pandey. The office-bearers of the bank had reached the Supreme Court claiming that they were preparing to arrest<a href=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/08\/07\/84826\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Supreme Court orders arrest of chairman and CEO of Nepal Investment Mega Bank&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":84812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_911c5f39.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84827,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84826\/revisions\/84827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/84812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}