A division bench of the Supreme Court justices Om Prakash Mishra and Jagadish Sharma Poudel issued a directive order to this effect in the name of the government, said Baburam Dahal, Co-spokesman of the Supreme Court.

The bench issued this order in response to a writ petition registered recently seeking an order in the name of the government for forming such a tribunal arguing that this had not been done in consonance with the Act Related to Information and Technology, 2063 even when more than nine years have passed since the Act was issued.

Chapter Nine, Clause 2 (L) of the Act provides for constitution of a three-member IT Tribunal to look into cases of cyber crime.

The Kathmandu District Court has been looking into cyber crime cases as per the Clause 60 (5) of the Act which states that any of the District Courts could be authorised to start the initial proceedings and settle the cyber crime-related cases until the IT Tribunal was formed.

Advocates Rajaram Shrestha and Ram Shrestha had filed the writ petition four years back. RSS