KATHMANDU, May 14: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Monday raided Tribhuvan University (TU) and seized the documents related to recruitment following media reports that top university officials had recruited their relatives as university staffers.

A corruption complaint was filed at the CIAA, demanding an investigation into the accused officials on the charge of promoting nepotism in the country's oldest university. A day after the complaint was filed, a team of investigators from the anti-graft body raided TU and seized the documents related to the university's staffer recruitment process.

“We have started an investigation into the complaint. Some documents were seized in course of the investigation,” said CIAA Spokesperson Pradeep Kumar Koirala.

TU Service Commission Chairman Chaitanya Sharma, Principal Krishna Acharya, former registrar Chandra Mani Poudel, and Monitoring Division chief Bishnu Prasad Khanal have been accused of appointing their relatives at the university.

Complaints were filed at the CIAA as well as the National Vigilance Center against "the controversial results, appointments and suspected irregularities at TU."

 
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