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The Health Insurance Board has repeated that people aged 16 and over will need a national identity card number to enrol, renew or use services. In October the Supreme Court struck down a rule making the card the sole basis for banking.
One full-time post, for up to a year with a three-month probation, has been filled, with two alternate candidates named. The selected candidates must contact the court within seven days.
Two posts are reserved for internal candidates, one is open and one is for the Dalit group. The commission had earlier recommended two Supreme Court registrars and a Judicial Council secretary.
The 16 July decision, taken on the last day of the fiscal year, also moved the heads of the Special Court, the Labour Court and the Foreign Employment Tribunal.
A committee led by former judge Baburam Regmi says cases of murder, arms looting and arson at key state buildings cannot be dropped. Any withdrawal needs the Attorney General’s opinion and court permission.
A Supreme Court decision of 31 July deputed 20 district judges to other courts, and the Judicial Council transferred 15 more on 15 September.
The Butwal bench of the High Court Tulsipur has barred enforcement of a government office’s order to shut the factory over pollution complaints. Whether the factory pollutes has not yet been decided.
Who decides whether the state prosecutes, whether a case may be withdrawn, and who checks on the treatment of detainees: Part 12 of the Constitution explained.
The cabinet has brought into force sections 17(e), 25 and 26 of the Criminal Offences (Sentencing and Execution) Act, 2074 from 1 November, eight years after the Act took effect.
Under a 1 October decision, 328 non-gazetted employees, most of them nayab subba, have been moved between district, high and specialised courts.
Both courts say no case older than two years remains pending. Under Patan, the Kathmandu District Court decided only 42.3 per cent of its cases.
The court will accept and hear habeas corpus petitions from 11 am to 3 pm on every day of the holiday except Bhai Tika.
