Kathmandu, July 15 -- Anishma Gubhaju recently finished her first semester as a law student at Mount View International College, coming first in her class of 40 students. But her studies, along with other students at BALLB programmes affiliated with Rajashri Janak University, violate an interim order that the Supreme Court issued last September. The order had instructed all law colleges affiliated with RJU to not admit students and teach until a full court hearing could take place.

"Since [the law colleges] have taken admission, they are in violation of the Supreme Court," an officer at the Nepal Bar Council told the Post.

With the legal case still pending, Gubhaju and the roughly 200 other law students who have completed their first se...