The House of Representatives on Wednesday lifted the suspension on Nepali Congress lawmaker Tek Bahadur Gurung.

Padma Prasad Pandey, general secretary of Parliament, said in a notice the suspension was lifted as per a Supreme Court order.

The apex court had on March 29 revoked the Parliament Secretariat's decision to suspend the lawmaker, a convict on a corruption charge.

A division bench of justices Manoj Kumar Sharma and Binod Sharma quashed the decision and allowed Gurung to participate in parliamentary proceedings more than two years after he was elected to the House of Representatives from Manang in the November 2022 polls.

Gurung was suspended on December 23, 2022 after the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority filed a case against him. The CIAA registered the case against Gurung and others in the Special Court on February 4, 2019. They were charged with irregularities while leasing out land to Fun Park, a children’s amusement park at Bhrikutimandap, Kathmandu. As per the law, any individual holding an office of benefit gets suspended once a corruption case is lodged against them.

Issuing a verdict in the case, the Special Court on March 1 last year convicted Gurung alongside former minister for women, children and social welfare Badri Neupane and six others in the case.