Kathmandu, March 17 -- With successive governments reluctant to implement its earlier orders, the Supreme Court has given the executive until mid-July to establish juvenile courts.

Issuing a full text of the September 24 verdict on Friday, a division bench of the court has asked the Prime Minister's Office, the ministries concerned and government bodies to constitute the courts within the current fiscal year. Reiterating earlier court orders and quoting existing legal provisions, the court said, "Now it is not the government's prerogative to decide whether or not to constitute the courts."

The division bench of justices Anil Kumar Sinha and Til Prasad Shrestha has also directed the Judgement Enforcement Directorate to monitor whether th...