The hearing on writ petition filed in the Supreme Court against the government decision to award the contract for the printing of Machine Readable Passports (MRP) to an Indian government-owned firm has been postponed to a later date today.
The hearing that was scheduled to be conducted by the single bench of Justice Damodar Sharma was cancelled due to another pending case, the SC said today.
The decision on the new date for hearing on the case will be made later, it is learnt.
Advocate Hem Mani Subedi had filed the writ on April 6, stating that the decision to award the printing contract to India without bidding is illegal and that this will pose threat to the country's security.
On April 7, the SC issued an interim order asking the government not to proceed with the printing contract of Machine Readable Passport (MRP).
The SC in its order had directed the government to suspend the process until its next hearing, which had been scheduled for today
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