Outgoing federal affairs and general administration minister Rajkumar Gupta and middleman Sujan Lama, who were involved in the 'secret bribe deal', have been summoned by the Abuse of Authority Investigation Commission for statements.

The audio of setting up to kill the land of lychee garden in Batulechaur of Pokhara by taking the officials of the Land and Land Commission into their hands was released last week . After the audio of the bribe deal was made public, Gupta resigned from the post of minister on June 31 . Balram Adhikari, Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, who was embroiled in the bribery case, is still in office. He has denied the allegations against him by holding a press conference. However, according to the plan to kill the land of lychee plantation, the officer claimed to have received the bribe through his son and can be heard in the related audio along with the bribe deal.