KATHMANDU, Jan 23: The Special Court has sentenced Madan Prasad Gupta, a non-gazetted first-class official from the Land Revenue Office involved in seven corruption cases, to five years in prison.
The Special Court bench, consisting of Chairman Teknarayan Kunwar and members Tejnarayan Singh Rai and Ritendra Thapa, handed down the prison sentence. Another accused, Nagendra Prasad Chaudhary, has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Dhan Bahadur Karki, spokesperson for the Special Court, stated that both individuals were ordered to pay a fine of Rs 4,754,000 each and an additional double amount, totaling Rs 9,508,000, as compensation for embezzling revenue funds from the Land Revenue Office.
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Gupta, found guilty in seven corruption cases, faced charges related to embezzlement of revenue. Nine years ago, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) sought Rs 95,08,000 in fine against him for revenue embezzlement.
According to the charge sheet of the CIAA, he had embezzled the amount of revenue received during the land transaction and the details of it by not reporting it to the accounting branch. On the same charge, the CIAA has demanded a fine of Rs 95,08,000 fine and twice that amount of compensation for embezzlement of revenue in the fiscal year 2072/73 BS.
The CIAA filed the most recent case against Gupta on September 23 last year. He was accused of embezzling approximately Rs 12.5 million while at the Land Revenue Office in Parsa. During eight days from January 29, 2013, he allegedly embezzled Rs 162,000 out of the Rs 1.4 million revenue collected.
At that time, he faced allegations of ‘embezzling the collected revenue without proper filing according to the existing laws’. He and another employee were accused of corruption involving the creation of two sets of records and the illegal alteration, correction, addition, subtraction, or manipulation of government documents.
