CABINET DECIDES TO HONOUR RAM HARI SHARMA POSTHOMOUSLY Kathmandu, 11 Oct. ::Jhapat Bohara :was Thursday appointed coordinator Thursday of Far-West Development Commission by the cabinet. Government decided to honour Ram Hari Sharma, chairman of Praja Parishar, who died Wednesday. nnnn. MASS TRANSFERS IN NEPAL POLICE Kathmandu, 11 Oct.: Nepal Police transferred 50 SPs and 133 DSPs in a mass transfer, an announcement said Thursday.. They were the first after Kuber Singh Rana took charge as IGP. The transfers coincided with Dashain. Nnnn FOREIGN MINISTRY ASKED TO RECOGNIZE DOCUMENTS CERTIFIED BY PUBLIC NOTARY Kathmandu, 11 Oct.: The Supreme Court today [Wednesday] directed the Foreign Ministry to recognise documents certified by the notary public. A division bench of Justices Sushila Karki and Bharat Raj Upreti noted there was no legal obstacle in counter-verifying and authenticating notary public-documents for the consulate section of MOFA and declined to issue interim order to revive the authority of Nepal Law Book Management Committee to translate public documents for foreign purposes. The SC also said that since the decision of the Notary Public Council to cease the authority of the committee some four months ago was for implementation of the Notary Public Act, 2006, the demand to reinvest authority on the committee was not proper. Stating that some diplomatic missions have not been recognising notary public documents, advocate Meena Khadka Basnet and a few aspirants trying to go abroad had filed a Public Interest Litigation on September 24 demanding apex court intervention. She had demanded that either notary public documents be recognised or the committee’s service be resumed to do away with obstacles faced by people. During the hearing, Notary Public Association had intervened demanding court order to MoFA to recognise legal documents forwarded by notary public lawyers. nnnn