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KATHMANDU, Sunday (Reuters)

Nepal's Supreme Court will give its landmark verdict on Tuesday on a clutch of petitions seeking restoration of the Himalayan kingdom's parliament dissolved in May, a court official said on Sunday.

A court approval of dissolution would mean fresh elections set for November 13 in a nation battling an increasingly bloody Maoist insurgency against Hindu constitutional monarchy.

A special bench of 11 judges last month completed hearings on writs filed by over 60 former deputies from ruling and opposition parties who challenged Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's move to dissolve parliament as unconstitutional and sought its restoration.

"The decision will be taken by a majority of judges," Supreme Court spokesman Durga Prasad Dawadi told Reuters.

He said all 11 judges must be present to deliver the judgement. "If any one failed to turn up the decision could not be given," Dawadi said.

Restoration of the 205-member parliament could mean fresh political instability in the country that has seen 11 governments in 12 years, since the ruling party has lost its majority after a split over the dissolution.

There is no precedent of parliamentary dissolution under a state of emergency.

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