A day after the Supreme Court overturned its previous decision, police arrested former Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Armed Police Force (APF) Ranjan Koirala from Baneshwor on Friday.

Police said that they apprehended Koirala from his hide out this afternoon.

A full bench of Acting Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Karki and justices Tanka Bahadur Moktan and Kumar Chudal overturned the Supreme Court's decision on Thursday.

Following the decision of the full bench, Koirala, who was slapped with a life term on the charge of murdering his wife Gita Dhakal, will have to go back to the prison.

Earlier, a joint bench of the then Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana and Justice Tej Bahadur KC had passed a judgement to commute the life term handed down to Koirala to eight and a half years on June 29, 2020.

He was freed following the decision.

On August 5, 2020, the Office of the Attorney General filed a writ expressing dissatisfaction over the decision of the Supreme Court.