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NC Leader Khum Bahadur Khadka Heads To Jail
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 14, 2012: NC Leader Khum Bahadur Khadka also a royalist is heading to jail for a one-and-a-half year after the Supreme Court of Nepal indicted him of corruption today.
NC Leader Chiranjibi Wagle had set the record of being the first former minister to be convicted of corruption and served the jail term and paid the penalty.
Currently, another former NC leader Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta has been serving in jail for corruption.
The Special Court had already convicted fourth NC leader Govinda Raj Joshi of corruption and declared the one-and-a-half-year-jail term. However, he has an opportunity to appeal at the Supreme Court for the review of the ruling of the Special Court. So, Mr. Joshi could remain free for some time but he was sure to serve a jail term as his colleagues had done and have been doing.
Khadka had been notorious for abusing his office for amassing wealth illegally and suppressing the opposition while he had served as a minister at various ministries.
The Supreme Court had set a large loud speaker on the facade of the Supreme Court building to inform the reporters and curious people assembled in the compound of the Supreme Court about the ruling. As soon as the Supreme Court had completed the reading out of the ruling to the public, a group of supporters of Khadka went on a rampage and damaged two private cars and two police vehicles protesting against the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal despite the heavy presence of security police.
On July 31, 2012, the Supreme Court had completed the hearing on the corruption case filed against Khadka by the Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA) and set August 14 as the date for announcing the ruling.
The CIAA had charged Khadka of amassing Rs 23.6 million not matching to his sources of income while he had held several ministerial portfolios in various governments headed by the Nepali Congress in different years, and had filed a case against him at the Special Court but the Special Court had acquitted Khadka along with Govinda Raj Joshi and Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta based on the technicality.
A division bench of justices such as Kalyan Kumar Shrestha and Baidya Nath Upadhyay today convicted Khadka of corruption, and slapped a one-and-a-half-year jail term and the penalty of Rs 9.47 million on him.
