KATHMANDU, JAN 08 - In response to a recent call from the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) to clear all the dues, the judiciary has started a nation-wide drive to settle debt in its account.
What is new this time about the debt-collection drive is, the judges of different courts whose names the arrears are recorded, have been asked to clear the amount, although the Supreme Court administration billed it a regular process.
According to a Supreme Court source, the debt amount in the judiciary is Rs 540 million. The amount due, going against the existing economic laws and regulations, ranges from Rs 60 to Rs 10,000. The amount recently waived by OAG is Rs 260 million, of penalties and fines from crime perpetrators who choose imprisonment instead of monetary penalty.
Acting promptly upon the call of the Office of the Auditor General, the Supreme Court (SC) administration has written to all its justices and other employees against whose names debts appear. Similarly, the apex court administration has also written to the Appellate Court administrations, ordering them to clear all their dues.
"The move is a regular process," Shree Prasad Pandit told The Kathmandu Post over the phone this evening.
In reply to the SC administration’s directives, the Appellate Courts have also informed its judges and employees having debts, and even to all the district court administrators to co-operate with the collection drive inside the judiciary.
SC justices Min Bahadur Rayamajhi, Khilraj Regmi and Gopal Prasad Khatri have settled their dues recently, the source added. They had debts when they were in the appellate courts.Posted on: 2004-01-09 04:11

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