KATHMANDU, AUGUST 13

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a chargesheet at the Special Court in Kathmandu against the Chief of the Land Revenue Office, Bhaktapur, Kumar Acharya, on charges of corruption.

The chargesheet also names Office Assistant Tikaram Raut as one of the accused. According to CIAA spokesperson Rajendra Kumar Poudel, a team from the CIAA head office in Tangal apprehended the duo while they were accepting a bribe of Rs 2.45 million in exchange for issuing a land ownership certificate in the name of a tenant for 14.4 ropani of land in Changunarayan Municipality, Bhaktapur.

Investigators seized Acharya's mobile phone, Raut's mobile phone, and the bribe money from the premises of the Land Revenue Office in Bhaktapur.

Meanwhile, the Kathmandu District Court has ordered the release of 19 individuals, including Milan Gurung, also known as Chakre Milan, on bail.

Deepak Kumar Shrestha, Information Officer at the Kathmandu District Court, told RSS that the court set bail for Chakre Milan at Rs 30,000, while the remaining 18 individuals were granted release on varying bail amounts.

Gurung and his associates had been arrested at the Shambala Hotel in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, on July 31.

(With inputs from Rastriya Samachar Samiti)