Contempt of court charge against six Maoist leaders including PM A contempt of court case has been filed against six maoist leaders including Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal for instigating protests against the Supreme Court. A Dang based journalist Murari Raj Sharma filed a writ petition at the SC on Wednesday against PM Dahal, finance minister Dr Babu Ram Bhattarai, maoist secretariat member Narayan Kaji Shrestha and maoist CA members Shalik Ram Jammar Kattel, Chandra Bahadur Thapa and Ekraj Bhandari. Sharma has accused the maoist leaders of undermining the court by organising rallies and meetings and expressing remarks against the stay order on the government’s decision to pension off army generals. SC had issued a stay order to the government and the army headquarters on March 24 not to implement the decision to pension off the army generals. The next day the government filed a writ petition urging the SC to vacate such stay order. Maoist leaders had been criticising SC for issuing the stay order and some cadres also staged protests and burnt effigy of the justice involved. Meanwhile, the hearing on the writ petition filed by the government to vacate the stay order has been postponed for April 19. nepalnews.com Apr 08 09