Kathmandu, Dec. 13 -- Over a month after the Supreme Court began recovering the case files destroyed during the deadly Gen Z movement, it has so far managed to restore under a quarter of the files lost.

After assessing that the majority of the case files of the top court and several of its subordinate courts were destroyed in the vandalism and arson of September 9, a full court on September 22 endorsed a directive listing out ways to recover them. A month later, on October 24, it issued a notice seeking cooperation from the parties to the cases, their lawyers, the Nepal Bar Association and its subordinate offices to help with the recovery.

"We have been able to recover just 4,400 case files [as of Thursday]," said Arjun Prasad Koirala, ...