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Land Management Minister Balram Adhikari has said that he is ready to investigate the public audio in the bribery case. In a press conference held at the ministry on Thursday, the ministerial official claimed that he was not involved in the case.
The official minister said, 'I have already told you. I'm not connected, I don't know, I don't speak. Didn't talk. Someone makes some accusations about it. Would it be better to go tomorrow and let someone do this than to let someone else do this and walk away believing it? After that, who can stay here.' He also said that the position of minister is not forever. He said that it is certain that the Council of Ministers will be reorganized in 1 year.
An audio has been released in which it is claimed that a bribe of 32 lakh rupees was accepted for registration of 134 ropani land in Batulechaur of Pokhara. In the audio that was released on Wednesday, it is claimed that the official took the bribe in the minister's quarter through the intermediary Sujan Lama, who is also a local leader of the UML. In the audio, it is said that the minister's son Manoj, the then secretary of the Ministry of Land Management, Arjun Pokharel was also involved in the bribe transaction and 'setting'.
It is mentioned in the audio of the dialogue between the middleman Lama and various people that the then secretary Pokharel accepted a bribe of five lakhs. The voices of the people who are said to have accepted the bribe are not heard in the audio. In the audio, the middleman Lama has also said that 1.5 million was spent on bribes taken by the then Federal Affairs and General Administration Minister Rajkumar Gupta, Land Management Minister Adhikari, Secretary Pokharel, etc. In the
audio, Lama is heard saying that Land Management Minister Adhikari found the money in the zebra's bag through Ramchandra Adhikari, the head of the Land Port Office Kaski. Lama can be heard saying in the audio, ``Ramchandra was given 32 lakh rupees in a zebra bag, noting all the note numbers. He took it and explained it. I will make the trust to Manoj. Manoj is a friend, Manoj confirmed, said yes. I know that Ramachandra explained it because I myself was on the bike. Sent him in, I was out. He came empty from the minister's quarters. He might not have hidden it in the corner of the minister's quarter.' Bhagwati Neupane, a member of the National Assembly, has taken over as a minister in his place.
