KATHMANDU, June 19: The Patan High Court has issued an interim order not to arrest journalist Dil Bhusan Pathak.
A joint bench of Justices Tanka Prasad Gurung and Tika Ram Acharya issued the order on Thursday. With this order, the police will not be allowed to arrest Pathak until the case he filed is resolved.
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On June 11, an arrest warrant had been issued against Pathak in connection with a video he produced about the five-star Hotel Hilton in Kathmandu.
The warrant was issued based on a complaint claiming that the report linking Nepali Congress(NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba’s son, Jaiveer Deuba, to Hotel Hilton, which is owned by the Shankar Group, was defamatory.
