Lottery system appropriate to make judiciary transparent, trustworthy: CJ Raut

Kathmandu / Dec 6: Chief Justice Prakash Man Singh Raut has said assigning cases through lottery system has been adopted to make judiciary transparent and trustworthy.

CJ Raut said so at a news conference organized at the Supreme Court today to observe the practice of assigning cases to the judges through lottery system.

“With the introduction of the lottery system for cause list, the initiatives of making judiciary transparent and credible have been fulfilled,” he shared.

The Chief Justice mentioned, “The bench comes across some new issues every day and discussion is held on the old cases as well as the settled cases.”

The SC had introduced lottery system from December 1, 2021. Similarly, High Courts and District Courts also adopted the lottery system to assign cases for hearing from January 16, 2022.

The lottery system begins at 10:10 am at SC every day.

There are 26,051 cases at the SC till today. Of them, 154 cases are pending since more than eight years. The court is working with a campaign to lower the eight-year old cases to zero by 2082 BS.

The SC has 17 justices including the Chief Justice. The Constitution of Nepal has a provision of 21 justices including the CJ. RSS