All Old Cases Cleared in High Courts for First Time in FY 2082/83

Kathmandu. For the first time in the current fiscal year 2082/083, all cases older than 18 months in high courts and their benches have been resolved. According to a press release issued by Arjun Prasad Koirala, spokesperson and joint registrar of the Supreme Court, the overall case resolution percentage of the judiciary has reached 54.03 percent in the current fiscal year.

The implementation of the 'DCM' system has brought significant improvement to the judiciary, which has been burdened by case backlog in the past. Out of 18 benches of the high court, 14 have cleared all cases older than 18 months to zero, while the remaining 4 benches have a very small number of pending cases.

Similarly, 42 district courts have succeeded in resolving all old cases older than 2 years, and 29 district courts have resolved all cases older than 18 months.

In terms of high case resolution, Justice Teknarayan Kunwar (1,427 cases) is in the first position in the high court category. Following him are Tikaram Acharya (1,222) and Jagat Bahadur Thapa (1,169) in second and third positions respectively.

In the district court category, Judge Rajendrasingh Bhandari of Kanchanpur District Court is in the lead with 1,011 cases resolved. Similarly, Madhavprasad Ghimire (984) of Parsa and Hariprasad Sharma Upadhyay (979) of Palpa have resolved a high number of cases.