Kathmandu, Aug. 14 -- The Nepal Olympic Committee (NOC), which got a new executive committee on December 28 last year with Jeevan Ram Shrestha being re-elected as the president for a third term, is illegal as per the government.

Shrestha had amended the NOC statute and allowed the president to run for the post for a third term and conducted the election , as the government had padlocked the NOC building in Satdobato, Lalitpur, following the orders from the Patan High Court and Supreme Court.

Still, the new executive committee was accepted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). But without the government's support, Shrestha's team has been barred from utilising the NOC building and has been op...