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Jailed Corrupt NC Leader Wagle Got Freedom
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 30, 2012: After serving 14-month-jail term NC Leader Chiranjivi Wagle indicted for abusing the power and amassing a huge wealth while in the office of minister, was released from the Dilli Bazaar jail in Kathmandu yesterday. The Supreme Court of Nepal reduced the sentences and fines by 20 per cent that was usually awarded to the criminals surrendering to the police but Wagle did not do so rather the police arrested him from his residence after the court ruling on his case.
The ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal on the corruption case of Wagle was for one-and-a-half-year imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 20.3 million rupees. Wagle's lawyers had filed a petition at the Supreme Court seeking reduction of the jail term and penalty. The joint bench of justices Baidhya Nath Shah and Ram Kumar Shah ruled to reduce his jail term by almost seven months and the fine by Rs. 4.63 million.
Talking to the reporters at Dilli Bazaar jail, Wagle claimed that the state did injustice to him by sending him to jail; It was a political vendetta, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes. Some NC cadres waving the NC flags greeted him at Dilli Bazaar.
In February 2011, a division bench of the then Chief Justice Ram Prasad Shrestha and current Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi upheld the ruling of the Special Court done in 2004 on the case of Wagle, and sent him to jail.
“A month before when the King took over on October 4, 2002, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba had warned we would face cases of the CIAA when we refused to resign for giving space to the then King to move forward as per his wish,” Wagle added, ‘The Himalayan Times’ of today writes.
Wagle could be proud of being the first former minister convicted of corruption charges and of serving the jail term and paying the fines the Special Court had imposed on him. Thus, Wagle had atoned for the sin of accumulating the huge taxpayers’ money in his treasury.
Currently, Former Minister Jayaprakash Prasad Gupta is serving in the same jail for the corruption caused when he was a minister and a Nepali Congress leader.
