Six Maoist parties including the UCPN (Maoist) submitted a joint memorandum to Prime Minister Sushil Koirala saying that the recent Supreme Court verdict on transitional justice was against the spirit of the peace accord. The apex court on February 26 had annulled the provision to provide blanket amnesty to all the cases related to the decade-long armed conflict, saying that it is against the established principles of justice, international law, and the court’s earlier verdicts. Submitting the memo to PM Koirala at his residence in Baluwatar on Friday, the leaders of the six Maoist parties—who were a major party to the conflict—demanded immediate nullification of the SC's verdict, the release of those arrested on charges of war-era cases, and enforcement of legal provision for reconciliation in war-era political cases. The SC ruling has barred the commissions--Truth and Reconciliation Committee ( TRC ) and Commission on Enforced Disappearance (CED)—from initiating reconciliation on their own without victims’ consent. The memorandum was signed by UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, CPN-Maoist Chair Mohan Baidya, CPN Maoist General Secretary Netra Bikram Chand, CPN (Maoist) Coordinator Matrika Yadav, CPN (Unified) General Secretary Pari Thapa, and Revolutionary Communist Party General Secretary Mani Thapa was submitted to PM Koirala by Dahal today. Responding to the appeal filed by 234 conflict victims in June 2014, the SC had issued the verdict, curtailing the discretionary powers of the TRC and the CED to grant amnesty. Earlier, the commissions could recommend amnesty to perpetrators if deemed reasonable for it, except in cases of rape and grave rights violations. On less serious crimes where amnesty is permissible, the court made it mandatory to take the consent of the victims. The SC verdict was hailed by various human rights groups including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights saying that it has ended fears that perpetrators of serious human rights violation would get acquitted without trial. द्वन्द्व