After the expiry of the deadline of the inquiry committee, the meeting held overnight passed the report on Tuesday morning.
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The Parliamentary Special Committee formed to investigate the fraud in the Federal Civil Service Bill has unanimously passed its report. All the members of the committee signed the report at around 4:30 am on Tuesday morning after discussions throughout the night. A member of the investigation committee informed that the report is about 100 pages long.
Due to intense political and administrative pressure , the report could not be prepared even after the deadline passed. On July 17, the investigation committee concluded that the "cooling off period" was not due to human error, but was intentionally messed up. Political pressure was exerted through the chief whips of the ruling Congress and UML when the committee was meeting to make a decision on the arrest of the people involved and the recommendations for action. Earlier, Chief Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal, General Secretary of Parliament Padma Prasad Pandey and government secretaries, who had campaigned against the 'cooling of period', raised questions about the justification and work of the committee and disobeyed when called to verify the statement.
The House of Representatives set up a special investigation committee on June 23 after setting a period of 21 days to study the fraud in the Civil Service Bill. After the committee failed to work, it was extended for 7 days, which ended at 12 midnight on Sunday. But the committee held a meeting from 7 am on Monday to finalize the report as a continuation of the previous day's meeting. All the members of the committee signed and passed the report only on Tuesday morning after meeting late at night.
