The Patan high court has issued an interim order instructing the government not to arrest journalist Dil Bhushan Pathak. The court had previously issued a short-term interim order, which has now been extended following a hearing from both parties. This means that the police cannot arrest Pathak until the final verdict is delivered in the case he has filed.

In another development, the Kathmandu district court has overturned an earlier order that had directed the removal of a news article from Bizmandu.com and Nepal Khabar. The decision came from a bench led by Judge Shyambihari Maurya, which rejected a petition for a restraining order filed by Santosh Narayan Shrestha, chairperson of the Securities Board of Nepal. With the petition dismissed, a previous order issued by Judge Pitambar Sharma requiring the removal of the news article has also been automatically annulled.