Kathmandu, June 5 -- The Supreme Court has overturned the then government's decision to keep a murder-after-abduction case against CPN (Maoist Centre) vice-chair Agni Sapkota and party's lawmaker Surya Man Dong in abeyance, thereby opening the door for investigation.

Issuing a verdict in the decade-old case, the top court has directed the police to carry out the investigation against six people including Sapkota and Dong, ruling that the government's decision to shelve the case was flawed.

In July 2012, the Baburam Bhattarai Cabinet decided that the insurgency-era case of murder-after-abduction of Arjun Lama falls under transitional justice process.

Challenging the decision, Lama's wife Purnimaya, in November that year moved the Suprem...