INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court has asked the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) to present a written clarification
as to why it did not file charges against former prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Baburam Bhattarai in connection with the Lalita
Niwas land grab case.
A single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana ordered the Commission to submit the written
clarification within 15 days.
Senior advocate Balkrishna Neupane had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) at the Supreme Court, on
February 12, stating that CIAA had not indicted the former prime ministers and NCP (NCP) General Secretary Bishnu Paudel son Navin Paudel
for their possible involvement in the Lalita Niwas case.
The CIAA recently filed a corruption case against 175 individuals including former
deputy prime minister and Nepali Congress vice-president Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar, former ministers Chandradev Joshi and Dambar Shrestha for
their alleged role in the infamous case
However, there was no charge against Nepal, Bhattarai and Paudel.
Neupane, therefore, urged the apex court to issue an order to the CIAA
telling it to file cases against the three as per Section 59 (c) of Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 35 of the penal code.
CJ Rana
to bench writ seeking to charge Bhattarai, Nepal, Paudel in Lalita Niwas case
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