Nepal, April 25 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the District Police Office and the District Attorney's Office in Rautahat to furnish written clarifications for not investigating an incident of mass killing in the district.

Responding to a writ petition by advocate Tribhuvan Sah, a single bench of Justice Til Prasad Shrestha demanded justification from the two government units for not commencing an investigation into the 17-year-old massacre. They have 15 days to respond to the show-cause order from the top court.

Sah had moved the top court demanding its intervention with no initiative to probe the killing. On March 21, 2007, as many as 27 individuals associated with the then CPN (Maoist) were brutally killed, with another 11...