KATHMANDU, April 21: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case at the Special Court against eight people, including the then chief survey officer of the Survey Office, Chabahil.
The CIAA has filed a case against eight people including Durga Das Maharjan, the then Chief Surveyor of the Survey Office, Chabhil, saying that the land map has been arbitrarily added and the area not on the map has been demarcated against the law.
CIAA files corruption case against five including former Chief...
According to the CIAA, Maharjan, the then chief surveyor of Chabahil Survey Office, survey officer Rabi Shankar Pandey and survey officer Ram Narayan Yadav have been alleged that the map, which is a government document, has been altered by changing the size of the map in an unauthorized manner during the allotment of Mulpani 1K K.No. 708, 709, 666 and 813.
The CIAA claims that the then land revenue officer Bishnu Prasad Kafle and non gazetted first class officer Uttam Kunwar of the Land Revenue Office, Chabhil, and Yogendra Acharya of Kamal Rural Municipality-2 of Jhapa, Sitaram Adhikari of Kageshwari Manohara-9, Kathmandu, and Nabin Dahal of Kathmandu Metropolitan City-9 are also involved in this act.
The CIAA has alleged that Acharya, Adhikari and Dahal helped the employees of the Survey Office, Chabahil in preparing the map by increasing the land area and thus were accomplices in the crime.
Bhola Dahal, spokesperson for the CIAA, said that they have been asked to be punished as the main offender as mentioned in the prohibitive clause of Section 22 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 2059.
