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Corruption And Justice In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 13, 2012: Chairman of the Special Court Gauri Bahadur Karki took the mandatory retirement provided by the age today, as he reached 63 years of age at which the judges have to take mandatory retirement at the lower level courts whereas the justices of the Supreme Court of Nepal take the mandatory retirement at the age of 65 years. The Special Court is set up to take up the corruption cases.
To Chairman Karki’s credits are the imprisonment of NC leader and former minister Govinda Raj Joshi for corruption, and former secretary to the Ministry of Defense Chakra Bandhu, and expediting the hearing on the corruption of purchasing Armored Personnel Carriers (APC) for the Nepal Police assigned to the UN Peace Mission abroad, and convicting a number of senior police officers, and then putting them behind bars.
“I performed my job honestly. Had all the judges discharged their duties honestly, this would have been a different country,” said Chairman Karki speaking at a farewell function. “The corrupt lot must be breathing a sigh of relief with my retirement,” he added. “Sometimes I was offered bribe and sometimes threats,” THT quotes Chairman Karki as saying.
Chairman Karki said that top politicians had been for saving the corrupt officials. “I am not going to reveal the names of these politicians now, but I will definitely include them in my book which will have all the details, including their mobile numbers and date and time when they made the contacts; I cannot make public some politicians’ names who have pretty good public image,” THT quotes Chairman Karki as saying.
A huge amount of social security funds was misused at the local bodies taking out money in the names of dead people. According to the two separate monitoring teams of the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD), more than Rs 300 million meant for the social security funds was misused in Dhanusha and Saptari districts each, writes ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ today.
Eight senior officials of the Janak Education Material Center have been suspended after the Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed cases charging them with the embezzlement of Rs 1,74,28,769 in purchasing 2168 metric tons of printing paper in the fiscal year 2009 at the Special Court yesterday, writes ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ today.
The suspended officials are Chief of the Department of Education Materials Uddhav Prasad Gautam, Deputy Director Manohar Lamichhane, Deputy GM Til Bahadur Adhikari, Director Kapil Dev Pokhrel, Deputy Director Bal Mukunda Khanal, Manager Giriraj Rajaure and Administration Department Chief Arjun Bilas Panta, according to the ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ news of today.
