High Court Tulsipur Disposes 725 Cases in Fiscal Year 2082/83

Dang. High Court Tulsipur has disposed of 725 cases in the fiscal year 2082/83. According to Krishna Prasad Sharma, information officer of High Court Tulsipur, out of a total of 1,065 cases, including 853 registered in the court during the one-year period and 212 carried over from the previous fiscal year, 725 have been disposed of, with 340 currently under consideration.

The office had set a target of disposing of 65 percent of cases in the last fiscal year and has disposed of approximately 68 percent, with more than three decimal zero seven percent of cases being finally decided, he informed. He stated that many cases under consideration are awaiting final decision in the bench due to incomplete procedures.

According to information officer Sharma, most cases older than one year have been decided. Among the remaining cases, 255 are within six months, 83 are between six months and one year, one is between one year and 18 months, and one is between 18 months and two years, he informed.

The High Court Tulsipur made public the progress report made by the court in one year at an interaction program organized with journalists here on Friday. After the court was completely damaged during the Jenji movement in August last year, essential services were operated by setting up tents in the court premises.

The court conducted hearings from the same location for seven months by temporarily making a motorcycle garage into a temporary bench after some time, informed information officer Sharma.

Chief Justice of High Court Tulsipur, Rajeshwar Tiwari, said that this court has been disposing of cases by dividing them into three types – simple, normal, and special paths – according to the case management system in line with the judiciary's five-year strategic plan. He informed that the arrangement is to dispose of cases within six months in the simple path, within one year in the normal path, and within 18 months in the special path, and that the work has been performed accordingly.

Chief Justice Tiwari said that the number of cases older than one year in the court is low. He also mentioned that free services are being provided through paid lawyers to cases involving detained persons, the helpless, economically disadvantaged children, women, and other backward classes.

Chief Justice Tiwari said that even though the court building and assets were completely destroyed by fire during the Jenji movement, the service delivery did not stop. He informed that services have been provided since March 27 by making a two-room shed constructed by Tulsipur Sub-Metropolitan City in the court premises as a bench room.

He also mentioned that the police deployed for the security of the court have been relocated to the canteen building, and the security barrack has been renovated to start the work of the archive section on the upper floor and the administrative and branch work on the lower floor, Chief Justice Tiwari mentioned.

He said that coordination has been done to obtain documents by deploying High Court employees to the concerned district courts for the acquisition of case documents destroyed by arson. According to him, the court building, documents, vehicles, and other materials were destroyed by fire in the incident of August 24 last year.

The working area of the High Court includes Dang, Pyuthan, Rolpa, and Rukum. The Butwal and Nepalgunj High Courts of Lumbini Province serve as benches of the High Court Tulsipur.