Govt employee held with Rs 50,000 kickback

PARASI, June 24: A team of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) caught a government official red-handed while he was taking Rs 50,000 as bribe from a service seeker.

The team confiscated the amount from Krishna Pokhrel, junior officer of the Kawasoti-based Land Revenue Office, Nawalparasi.


Pokhrel has been sent to the CIAA Office, Butwal, for further investigation. The CIAA team arrested him from Rakuwa Hotel while he was receiving the bribe for facilitating the land related transaction following a tip-off, said Dhanishwor Paudel, Accounts Officer at the CIAA Office. RSS

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