A bench of Judges Bhupendra Prasad Rai, Pawan Kumar Sharma and Narendra Kumar Shiwakoti gave clean chits to the all accused stating no evidences proved them guilty.
The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had filed a graft case at the Special Court against the 17 individuals last February, including top officials of Kathmandu University (KU) and Nepal Medical Council (NMC), claiming irregularities were made while granting affiliation to the Rupandehi-based College.
The anti-graft body had filed corruption cases against NMC Vice-president Dr Anwar Elahi Ansari, NMC members Dr Anil Kumar Jha, Dr Manohar Prasad Jha, Dr Roshan Piya, Dr Niraj Pant, Dr Kuldip Goit and Dr Ankur Shah; KU exam controller and Professor Dr Panna Thapa, Dr Jagadish Chataut and Dr Ramesh Prasad Singh; and KU Manager Pradyumna Shrestha. Along with them, Assistant Professor Dr Satish Kumar Dev of TU Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj and operators of Devdaha College -- Rajaneesh Jindal, Nilakantha Kafle and Himlal Gyawali -- were others accused in the case. Consumer activist Jyoti Baniya and Dr Shivaji Paudel were also been named as defendants in the case.
The CIAA had argued that the KU and NMC officials granted affiliation to the medical college even though it did not meet the set standards for offering MBBS classes.
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