Social inertia and its effect in the implementation of the law in Nepal

“Mato suhaudo kanun” is a well-acquainted phrase in the legal fraternity in Nepal. It means contextualised law. However, the premise states how laws nowadays are inorganically transplanted and adopted; it has caused problems. There has been a trend of importing decrees: fashions of laws that artificially brought and transplanted. Such acts have caused a very amusing scenario: the breakdown of the connection between the law and society.

In Nepal, laws often have a creationist origin than an evolutionary one. Rather than having a gradual development, Nepal’s legal policies have an abrupt ancestry. Then, after being coded in the law, their implementation is left untouched. Such events have made the law flamboyantly fancy and embellished. However, it is nothing other than merely a necklace of pistachios and nuts.