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Cases of Corruption In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 10, 2012: hearing on the corruption case filed against NC leader Govinda Raj Joshi by Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA), a bench of two justices of the Supreme Court of Nepal has sent the case back to the Special Court that had ruled that the CIAA had filed the case well after the expiry of the deadline for filing the case, and dismissed the corruption case freeing the most corrupt former Minister for Education Govinda Raj Joshi from the heinous crime of abusing his authority, ‘gorkhapatra’ of January 9, 2012 writes. Following the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Special Court needs to take up the case seriously. The CIAA has charged Mr. Joshi with amassing about 40 million rupees illegally. The CIAA wants the Special Court confiscate the amount and fine him the equal amount and punish Mr. Joshi with a jail term.
Similarly, another NC leader Khum Bahadur Khadka, and late Rabindranath Sharma of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RRP) were acquitted by the Court on the technical ground similar to that of Mr. Joshi.
NC leader Chiranjivi Wagle has been sitting in a jail since March 2011 after the bench comprising the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal Ram Prasad Shrestha and Justice Khil Raj Regmi upheld the ruling of the Special Court and convicted him of stealing the state treasury. Following the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal, Chiranjivi Wagle needs to serve one-and-a-half-year term of imprisonment and return Rs 40.06 million to the state treasury. This is one of the victories of the CIAA over the corrupt ministers and politicians.
