Various political institutions across the country were attacked in anarchic and violent activities during the protests on Tuesday.
The fire set at Singha Durbar, the main administrative center, and the Parliament building has not yet been fully extinguished. In this series of events, the Supreme Court also became a target of the protestors.
The protestors destroyed over 60,000 case files at the Supreme Court, severely impacting its case hearings. The Supreme Court has postponed all hearings until further arrangements are made.
Chief Registrar Bimal Paudel issued a notice stating that case hearings scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday have been suspended. Hearings will remain suspended until another notice is issued, he added.
Paudel reported that case files, servers, and courtrooms at the Supreme Court have been burnt and destroyed in the fire.
Currently, Supreme Court staff are engaged in managing the items damaged by the fire. The court has requested tarps to protect the files and other materials that have not been burnt.
"Staff are working to save extremely important materials. Tarps are needed to store the materials. This is a public appeal. Someone needs to help," said information officer Nirajan Pandey.
Supreme Court spokesperson Arjun Prasad Koirala confirmed that 60,000 case files have been destroyed by the fire. He said that some files are still burning.
Koirala appealed for help to save at least the annex building within the Supreme Court premises, stating that it contains important documents. The building houses the archives section containing decided cases and old case files.
"There is a section with records of decided cases and old files. If we could save them, history would be preserved," he said. "It is safe so far. However, books in the delivery section are burning."
According to Koirala, some judgments in the information technology section on the fourth floor of the Supreme Court have also been destroyed. He stated that there are no means left to ensure safety or control the fire.
