In the Patanjali land embezzlement case, the then Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's Council of Ministers made decisions within two months, from giving approval to the purchase of demarcated land to selling permission.
When Keshar Bahadur Banian, the then Director General of the Land Management Department, tried to stop the decision of the Council of Ministers saying it was against the law, on the contrary, he was transferred and another Joint Secretary Jit Bahadur Thapa was taken to the department.
What happened in Patanjali land embezzlement?
- 2064 Jan 20: Registration of Patanjali Yogpeeth and Ayurveda Company with Kathmandu Buddhist address
- 2066 Jan 18: Madhav Kumar's approval to Patanjali to purchase 815 plantations of land under concession by the Cabinet of the Government of Nepal
- 2066 February 17: Patanjali's head of Nepal Shaligram Singh petitioned Land Reforms Minister Dambar Shrestha asking for approval to sell land under concession
- 2066 Chait 3: According to the Prime Minister of Nepal, Minister Shrestha proposed to the Cabinet that Patanjali could sell the demarcated land. Patanjali buys 88 ropani land in Dhulikhel and lays the foundation stone of the structure to be built on it
- 2066 Chait 26: Council of Ministers' decision to ask Director General Bania for an explanation for challenging the approval of the sale of demarcated land
- 2066 Chait 27: By removing Bania, Jit Bahadur Thapa, the joint secretary of the ministry, becomes the director general of the department. Letter to Land Office Kavre to give approval for the sale
- 2067 June 11: Sale of 353 ropani 15 annas of land by Patanjali to Kastamandap Business Homes Pvt. A corruption case was filed by keeping the rupee as bad,
