The Supreme Court (SC) on August 2 refused to issue an interim order in the case filed by four former lawmakers representing the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre (CPN-Maoist Centre) who had joined the KP Sharma Oli Government, reports The Himalayan Times. Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Lekh Raj Bhatta, Prabhu Sah, and Gauri Shankar Chaudhary had filed a writ petition at the SC on July 28 demanding reinstatement of their House of Representatives seats that they had lost after the CPN-Maoist Centre took disciplinary action against them for defecting to the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML).