A case was filed in the district court Malangwa on the charge of encroaching on Sagarnath forest land and building a private lake
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District Forest Office Sarlahi has filed a case in District Court Malangwa by making the suspended Mayor Bharat Thapa and Deputy Mayor Leela Kumari Moktan of Bagmati Municipality as defendants on the charge of encroaching on the land of Sagarnath Forest located in Sarlahi and building a private lake.
The Forest Office along with Thapa and Moktan filed a case against the then District Coordination Committee Chief Mithur Chaudhary, the then Chief Administrative Officer of the Municipality Bimal Kumar Pokhrel, Accounts Officer Vishwaraj Pokhrel and the then Engineer Sagar Paudel of the Municipality, with a sum of Rs. Thapa was elected mayor from the Maoists in the last local elections.
It is mentioned in the indictment that permission was granted to build a private lake with the connivance of the employees and officials of the Karmaiya area under Murtia sector owned by Sagarnath Forest Development Project in Ward No. 4 and 12 of Bagmati municipality. 35.20 hectares under the first Bagmati Fish Pond (Bharattal), 32.60 hectares under the construction of the second pond under construction, 66.70 hectares during the construction of horticulture and mango orchards, 38.50 hectares during the construction of roads and other physical structures around the lake, totaling 173 hectares of the lake area and about 815.20 hectares including agriculture and settlement areas, 988.20 hectares of forest land encroached. is .
The corruption case filed by the Abuse of Authority Investigation Commission in the special court is under consideration, with Mayor Thapa and Deputy Mayor Moktan, who were suspended on 29th May 2081, accused of illegally constructing the lake. The District Forest Office Sarlahi has also filed a case against them for misappropriation of government land by forest encroachment.
