Police said the hospital where the donor and the recipient were undergoing treatment had no documentation related to the procedure, following which the arrests were made.
In response to a habeas corpus petition filed by Oli’s wife, Radhika Shakya, claiming her husband’s detention is unlawful, a single bench refused to issue an interim order for Oli’s release.
The arrests came after the newly formed Balendra Shah government decided to implement the report of the probe commission into the Gen Z protests in its first cabinet meeting.
Former Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli and ex-home minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested over their alleged involvement in the September 2025 protest crackdown that killed at least 76 people.
The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Lennist) called the arrest of party chair Oli a "political revenge" and said that the Balendra Shah-led government is displaying prejudice.
