The Kathmandu District Court has barred the sale or transfer of a helicopter owned by Mustang Helicopter Pvt Ltd, a company associated with mountaineer Nirmal Purja, widely known as “Nimsdai”.

The court imposed the restriction over the company’s failure to pay compensation awarded to the owners of a house that was destroyed in an explosion involving oxygen and LPG cylinders stored there by the company, according to lawyer Ananta Raj Luitel, who represents the homeowners.

Purja died on August 1 while attempting to climb Broad Peak in Pakistan.

The house in Kapan, Kathmandu, owned by Tanka Ghising and Dalmu Kittar Ghising, was completely destroyed on September 21, 2022, after an explosion involving LPG and oxygen cylinders that had allegedly been stored there without authorisation by Elite Himalayan Adventure Pvt Ltd, a company associated with Purja.

The Kathmandu District Court ordered the company to pay Rs114 million in compensation to the Ghisings. The Patan High Court later upheld the district court’s ruling, and the couple is now pursuing enforcement of the judgment. The company has challenged the decisions of both courts at the Supreme Court.

Luitel said the helicopter had been barred from sale or transfer because the company had failed to pay the compensation awarded by the court.

The company registry records show that the shares linked to the helicopter are held in the name of Nimsdai Ltd London, he said. There has been public discussion that the helicopter was being put up for sale following Purja’s death.

The Office of the Company Registrar informed the Kathmandu District Court through a letter dated September 29, 2026, that the helicopter had been placed under restriction.

The explosion destroyed the Ghisings’ two-and-a-half-storey reinforced-concrete house in Ram Mandir, Lasuntar, Kapan. The property, built on a one-ropani plot in what was then Kapan Village Development Committee Ward No. 5 and is now Budhanilkantha Municipality Ward No. 11, had been rented by Elite Himalayan Adventure to operate its office.

Other directors of Elite Himalayan Adventure, including Mingma Gyabu Sherpa, also known as Mingma David Sherpa, and Mingma Tenji Sherpa, are defendants in the case. Mingma Gyabu Sherpa is also a proportional representative lawmaker of the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party from Taplejung district.

The Ghisings are in a legal battle for five years after the company failed to pay compensation despite promising, both verbally and in writing, to cover the losses following appeals to the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the home ministry and the Budhanilkantha Municipality.