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News In Brief
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
Crimes and punishments
On January 17, 2009, the police took into custody Baban Singh the member of the Constituent Assembly elected in absentia for questioning concerning the murder of businessmen in Birgunj three months ago. The police presented him at the Parsa District Court seeking the court’s approval for keeping him under the police custody for questioning for seven days. The court approved for keeping Baban Singh in custody for three days.
On January 18, 2009, the police arrested two suspects in the murder of woman journalist Uma Sing died on January 11, 2009. However, the Minister for Information and Communications and Spokesperson for the government Krishna Bahadur Mahar said to the Constituent Assembly the arrest of only one suspect. The media persons need to continuously put pressure on the police to present the culprits to the law court.
Corruption
On Sunday, January 18, 2009, presenting the annual report on the auditing of the state accounts and state-financed institutions to Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Legislature-House, Acting Auditor General Bacchuram Dahal said that the irregularities in the state accounts have reached Rs 26.4 billions in the fiscal year 2007; out of this amount only Rs 9.48 billions cleared up; the state-financed university and other institutions have irregularities of Rs 22.84 billion in their accounts but they cleared up only Rs 3.49 billions. The Acting Auditor General also said that the government had not enforced some decisions of the PAC on clearing up the irregularities, yet. These irregularities in the accounts are the examples of both the corruption and the disregard of the rule of law.
