Kathmandu, November 3
The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case against former prime minister and NCP co-coordinator Madhav Kumar Nepal, as well as Nepali Congress leader and former minister Minendra Rijal.
The CIAA has filed the case at the Special Court against 97 people, including Nepal and Rijal. The charge is corruption through a Cabinet decision to register public land as omitted land.
The CIAA has claimed about Rs 735 million in damages from them.
The list includes former land reform minister Dambar Shrestha and Kamala Ghimire, daughter of former chief secretary Madhav Ghimire, who went missing in the Trishuli River in a vehicle accident.
The charge sheet also names former secretary Chhabi Raj Pant and former joint secretary Ramesh Chandra Adhikari. Also named are the then under secretaries Gandhi Prasad Subedi, Hupendra Mani KC, Nurpati Kandel, Hari Raj Pant, Arjun Khadka, Laxman Thapa and Dhruba Sapkota, and section officer Balram Niraula.
The CIAA has also filed corruption cases against Rajendra Sharma, director general of the Department of Land Management; director Narayan Adhikari; under secretary Baburam Khanal; section officer Sitaram Pokharel; and Non-Gazetted First-Class Officer Buddhi Bahadur Karki.
