Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani said all Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar has done is point out a constitutional flaw amid a growing public perception that there is a tendency towards “judicial overreach”

The victim was severely injured in the incident. He was rushed to the Lalitpur Medical Hospital, where he is undergoing treatment.

The exchange of prisoners and war dead is one of the few areas of cooperation between the two sides since Russia invaded Ukraine more than three years ago.