A cabinet meeting recently took the decision to this effect in a bid to check government documents including court rulings, government stamps, letterheads, official translations and other documents for authenticity.
Following the cabinet decision, the Ministry of Law and Justice has started work on developing such a system. "An authenticity checker (electronically developed e-security card) will tally and check documents to see if they are authentic, Law and Justice Minister Prem Bahadur Singh said, adding, "The tool will be provided to offices concerned and one can instantly carry out checking in case of any doubt."
Taking up a proposal of the Ministry of Law and Justice, the cabinet has also formed a task force to make necessary preparations for implementing such a system. The cabinet instructed the law ministry to implement the e-security system as soon as possible through a reliable mechanism.
An investigation team at the law ministry had earlier found several cases of court-ruling documents being faked, the use of fake official stamps and also a tendency to use duplicate letterheads and forged translations.
The team had recommended to the government to take necessary steps to curb such tendencies through the introduction of an e-security system.
Such a system will be in use mainly at public offices concerned such as land revenue, transport and management, immigration, district administration offices and village development committee offices.
The authenticity checker will read the documents and find out instantly whether suspicious documents are original or duplicated.
"Conventional government office stamps can be copied," Minister Singh said, adding, "But such stamps, letterheads, documents and court rulings cannot be copied, modified or duplicated once they are checked by an electronic card."
Minister Singh said the authenticity checker (e-security card) will be easily accessible to all the offices concerned.
The electronic card will read hidden letters and symbols in the documents. It will also check stamps to see whether they are original or duplicates. "There will be no chance of any business forging stamps and letterheads" Singh told myrepublica.com.
If any court-ruling document is found to be suspect, the card will read the copy of that document and instantly determine if it is original. Similarly, the e-security card can read other documents found to be suspicious.
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