Recovery of Destroyed Court Files and Justice for Victims in Nepal

Recovery of the destroyed case files and providing justice to the victim

On September 8th of 2025, there was a movement by Genz people for the eradication of the corruption from the state and the dissolution of the parliament to form the new government. Though the protest was meant to be a peaceful protest, the protest took a violent form, and about 70 people lost their lives. With the aggression of the loss of life of the students and people, the protest took the violent shape that was believed to be misleading by the external force later. The aggression of people ended up in burning different government offices, Singha Durbar, many courts of the state, and others. As a result of the burning courts we have lost the original files of the cases.

After losing the original files of the cases, many people are wondering about the recovery of the case files. It looks like we have lost everything, and the culprit or guilty people would get immunity for their crime. But it's not going to happen likewise. The Supreme Court of Nepal has already published the" विशेष परिस्थितिका कारण नष्ट भएका कागजातको प्रमानीकरण सम्बन्धी निर्देशीका, २०८२ " for the recovery of the burnt file and provide the justice to the victims. As mentioned in the directory, in case of destruction of the case files, the respective court shall make the list of the cases according to the nature of the cases and later according to the place of the cases. Court other than the Supreme Court shall send the list of the destroyed cases to the Supreme Court as mentioned in the directory. The documents of the destroyed case file will be recovered with the help of the lawyers of the specific cases. The court will receive the documents from the both of the parties and verify them with each other before verifying them by themselves; they will collect the document via mail which had been sent to them by different related offices. The court is said to enlist the necessary time period to collect documents and has asked the people to submit the document related to the destroyed files within 60 days. It has also ensured that if anyone has the original case files for any reason, they shall return it to the respective court and their identity will always be confidential.

The judiciary has put forth full efforts to collect the documents for the destroyed case files. This process of collecting the documents will surely help people to get justice and the courts to start their work sooner. Destruction of the courts and files won't let any culprit be free and harm more people. They are meant to get liable for what they did, and this measure will surely help to do so.