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

December 6, Kathmandu: Chief Justice Prakash Man Singh Raut has said assigning cases through a lottery system had been adopted to make the judiciary transparent and trustworthy.

CJ Raut made such remarks at a news conference organized at the Supreme Court today to observe the practice of assigning cases to judges through a 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 SC introduced a lottery system on 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.