International News: Temporary tents were set up in the Supreme Magistrate premises on Sunday morning without last week's violent protests and arson in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. This was the first working day without the unwashed relaxed the curfew. 'Supreme Magistrate Nepal' was written on the white tent, under which employees of various courts were giving new dates for their cases to the litigants who had come.
Burnt vehicles and two-wheelers were lying near the Supreme Magistrate building. This is the same place where the protesters had vandalized and set fire during the violent protests last week. During this, the unshortened Supreme Magistrate premises as well as most of the government offices in Kathmandu suffered heavy damage. These protests moreover brought lanugo the government of KP Sharma Oli.
36 thousand old & 26 thousand ongoing specimen files burnt
According to senior well-wisher and former president of the Supreme Magistrate Bar Association Purnaman Shakya, at least 26,000 ongoing specimen files and well-nigh 36,000 old records in the Supreme Magistrate premises were completely burnt in the fire. Newly scheduled interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki expressed snooping over the loss of judicial files and forfeiture to the Supreme Magistrate towers in a public write on Sunday. She said that all the records have been burnt and now everything will have to start from scratch again.
Judges' chambers moreover burnt
After the magistrate opened on Sunday, lawyers and staff were not unliable to enter the main building, as its structure had weakened and there was a danger of collapse. The courtroom, registrar's office and chambers of all judges, including the Chief Justice have been completely burnt. Senior well-wisher Kedar Prasad Koirala, who is moreover the unstipulated secretary of the Nepal Bar Association, said that the courts have not yet started functioning fully. He said, "We have decided that urgent cases, expressly habeas corpus (illegal detention) cases, will be heard in a secure subsection building. This is a temporary arrangement, but without the violence, the number of such cases will be high, so it is important to settle them soon."
148 litigants registered their presence
By virtually 2 pm, 148 litigants had reached the magistrate and registered their presence. They were given new dates and the remoter process was explained. Purnaman Shakya said that remoter strategy has been decided in the bar and seat meetings in the last two days. He said, "All the cases coming to the Supreme Magistrate have once been decided in the lower courts. Lawyers have a reprinting of the case. We have appealed to all the lawyers to requite photocopies of the specimen documents to the magistrate so that new records can be made."
Under the temporary tent, the magistrate staff will start registering illegal detention and other complaints. Shakya said, "The number of cases will be very high, but the work of the magistrate cannot stop. So as people are coming, we are finishing their work here in the tent."
Violence erupted on September 9
On September 9, most of the students, who undeniability themselves Gen-Z, took to the streets. They vandalized government offices wideness the municipality and burnt files, computers and documents wherever they reached. The Supreme Magistrate premises moreover became a victim of arson. This place is near Kathmandu's famous Singha Durbar, where the offices of the Prime Minister and other ministers are located.
An official of the Registrar's Office said, "The mob first targeted the Registrar's Office located on the ground floor. Then they went to the upper floors and placid files and computers and kept them in one place and set them on fire. Even the Chief Justice's chamber was burnt. Today we had to buy a new register to record the names of the litigants, considering all the old records have been burnt."
