A three-member special court today reprimanded Nepal police for its failureto produce enough documentary evidence to support its sedition charge against YubrajGhimire, editor of daily 'Kantipur', and its two other functionaries, andallowed only three days remand as against 25 days prayed for by the police.
Amidst protests by journalists on the streets here, the three-member bench,presided over by Justice Mohan Prakash Sitola, reprimanded the police for notbringing sufficient documents to prove their charges and asked them to justifytheir plea for 25 days custody of the accused.
The order passed after a three-hour long hearing came even as journalists inKathmandu again took to the streets protesting against the arrest which theytermed as an attack on press freedom.
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Ghimire and the his two colleagues were arrested on June 6 followingpublication of an article written by underground Maoist leader Baburam Bhattaraiin the paper alleging a conspiracy by India's external intelligence agency RAWand the CIA of USA behind the palace massacre.
Coming out of the court, Ghimire told reporters that he was grateful to Nepaleseand Indian media for coming out in his support.
A senior diplomat of United States, which had demanded Ghimire's immediaterelease, sat through the proceedings at the Anamnagar court.
