KATHMANDU, JULY 25

The Central Police Science Forensic Laboratory, which was asked to retrieve CCTV footage recorded on May 28 at the Ministry of Finance, today submitted its report to the committee formed to investigate tweaking of taxes in the budget to favour certain business houses.

Democratic Socialist Party-Nepal leader Laxman Lal Karna, who chaired the probe committee meeting, said his panel had received a sealed report from the police lab and they would open it tomorrow in their meeting.

The panel has also sought CCTV footage of south and east gates of Singha Durbar to see whether any unauthorised person entered the building.

The House of Representatives had formed the panel to investigate interference in budget making process by outsiders on May 28, a day before the budget was presented in the HoR.

The Ministry of Finance claims that the footage got deleted after 13 days.

The CPN-UML has accused the finance minister of allowing outsiders to tweak the budget so as to benefit certain business houses.

A version of this article appears in the print on July 26, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.