Former land revenue officer sent to judicial custody

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, March 16 The Special Court today sent former officer of Dillibazar Land Revenue Office, Krishna Prasad Paudel, who is one of the
accused in the Lalita Niwas land grab case, to judicial custody till the final verdicts in the case. The order to send Paudel to judicial
custody was passed by the bench of judges comprising Shivraj Adhikari and Chandra Bahadur Saru. Paudel is the first among the 175 defendants
in the case to appear before the court to contest the case. The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority had indicted Paudel
in the Lalita Niwas land grab case accusing him of embezzling Rs 32.19 crore. The CIAA had named some high profile people as defendants in
the case, including former deputy prime minister Bijay Kumar Gachhadar, former ministers Chandra Dev Joshi and Dambar Shrestha for illegally
registering more than 284 ropanis of government and guthi (trust) land at Lalita Niwas in Baluwatar in the names of individuals abusing
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