The Supreme Court has started the final hearing after 8 years of the Comsal Transformer Scam scandal which brought disgrace to the Nepal Electricity Authority itself. This case, which was registered in the Supreme Court on October 27, 2074, was heard only once before.

This case was being raised in one court after another but was not heard . On Thursday (12 August) Justice Abdul Aziz Muslim and  The final debate has started in Meghraj Pokharel's bench.  

The case has been climbing the pace under campaign field The five-year-old cases are being heard on priority basis under the campaign. On February 9, 2074, the bench of Judges Bishwambhar Prasad Shrestha and Bam Kumar Shrestha ordered the parties to the case to be dismissed. After that, on Thursday only, the Supreme Court is going to finish the case of Pacey climbing after continuous hearing. On Friday also, the court of Justice Muslim and Pokharel has been placed under the watchful eye. The Abuse of Authority Investigation Commission had filed a case in the special court in February 2070. The authority had filed a case in two stages at that time. 

The authority in the special court initially the then executive director Dr. Jeevendra Jha and the then General Managers Rameshwar Yadav, Yugal Kishore Sahahit filed a corruption case against 18 people.

In the second phase, the authority filed a case against foreign agents and other employees of the authority. In the case, the Authority claimed that the state had caused a loss of 500 million rupees by importing commercial transformers and demanded that the amount should be recovered .

After irregularities were found in the purchase of transformers, the authority registered four cases in the special court on August 9 and 28, 2070, against 60 employees of the authority and supplier companies.

While delivering the verdict in the case, the special court on 17th Chait 2073 found 25 people guilty, including the top leadership of the authority and foreigners, and ordered to recover 46 crores from them.

20 employees including the then two chief executive directors of the authority were found guilty. Similarly, five people from Chinese and Thai companies supplying transformers were also found guilty. Specially asked to collect Rs 46 crore 30 lakh more as fine from those found guilty .

After the transformers brought from India, China and Thailand began to break down, the authority started investigating . What was the

incident?

In the financial year 2066/67, it was mentioned in the charge sheet of the authority that when purchasing 1 thousand 567 transformers through Sehwant Electric Company Thailand, the same amount was involved in corruption. The authority demanded that those involved in the purchase of transformers should be imprisoned for up to 10 years .

2066 On November 1, 2066, the tender was accepted in violation of the standards and the transformers of half capacity than the weight agreed by the supplier were technically matched, and it was claimed in the authority's indictment that corruption was done by using copper wire of low weight and size.

The authority paid for the transformer purchased by the authority itself for the leakage of 1796 million 52 thousand 170 rupees and 27 million 41 million 87 thousand 701 rupees for the loss and 130 days late supply of 1 million 38 million 23 thousand 391 for the damages due to the delay of 130 days. was .

It was mentioned in the indictment that the amount of corruption increased due to the fact that the authority took advantage of the legal system that can recover up to double the amount due to corruption and took claims from the contractor and the accused to get the amount paid.

The authority had registered a case in the special court against the employees of the authority along with the managing director of Sehwant Electric Company, Prepat Janat Rangsri, the authorized representative of the contractor, Rajan K Bhatt, and the president of Nepal Agent Company, Apex Marketing Pvt. Ltd., Vinod Kumar Manandhar. But except for Prepat, others were acquitted.

In 2067/68, eight people who were arrested in the case of purchasing 1,995 substandard transformers from China's Huawei Sunlight Electric Company were also involved in the case of transformers purchased by a related company. Another 10 people were arrested by the authority in the case of transformers purchased by Sehwant Company. A double case was filed against eight officials of the authority. They were found in the transformers purchased by Sehwant Company and were also found in the transformers purchased through China's Huawei, which had already been filed by the Authority.

the then executive director Dr. Jeevendra Jha, then General Manager and outgoing Executive Director Rameshwar Yadav, then General Manager Yugalkishore Sah were made defendants in all four cases. Similarly, the then employees Manager Kailash Kumar Atal, Co-Director Hari Bahadur Pal, Accounts Officer Suresh Kumar Katuwal, Assistant Accounts Officer Sushil Khanal, Central Store Chief and Engineer Narayan Chaudhary and Store Assistant Saroj Shrestha were also charged with double cases.

The Authority had filed a case in the special court for committing corruption worth 467.6 million 63 thousand 263 rupees towards Sehwant and 41.8 million 40 thousand 571 rupees towards Huawei.

These are the convictions 

The special court sentenced the then executive director Yadav to a fine of 1 lakh 35 thousand and 3 years and 5 months imprisonment, another executive director Jha was sentenced to a fine of 80 thousand rupees and 1 year and 2 months imprisonment . A bench of Justices Mohanraman Bhattarai, Narendra Kumar Sivakoti and Mahesh Kumar Pudasaini decided that the fine should be recovered along with Vigo.

special sentenced executive director Yadav to 1 year and 6 months imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 rupees in the first case, 4 months imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 rupees in the second case, 7 months imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 rupees in the third case and 1 year imprisonment and a fine of 40,000 rupees in the fourth case.

Another executive director Jha was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and a fine of 25,000 rupees in the first case, 4 months imprisonment and a fine of 40,000 rupees in the second case and 4 months imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 rupees in the third case. The court acquitted Jha in one case.

In the same way, the special court sentenced Yugalkishore Sah to a fine of 95 thousand rupees and one year and 7 months imprisonment, to Kailash Prasad Atal a fine of 30 thousand rupees and 8 months imprisonment and to Chiranjeevi Sharma Paudel 4 months imprisonment and a fine of 15 thousand rupees.

The other employees found guilty in the transformer scandal were Madanraj Chapagain, Prajwal Pandey, Sendhu Yadav, Bharat Kumar Sah, Surendra Paneru, Surendra Raj Joshi, Shekhar Kumar Dutt, Manoj Baral, Vidur Paudel, Suraj Prasad Sah, Ram Bijul Mandal, Vinod Kumar Swarnakar, Nimesh Kumar Pokharel, Ashtaratna Shakya and Tripura Prasad Singh. They were sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and a fine of Rs 15,000.

The special court also convicted five people from Chinese and Thai companies supplying transformers. The special court sentenced Li Dao Jiu to a fine of 2145 million 2374 rupees, Hu Zheng Jing to 2 years in prison and Hu Ji Qiu to one year in prison . The special court ruled that other foreigners Hueyong will be imprisoned for one year and a fine of 50 million 87 million 79 thousand 603 rupees, Ou Yang will be fined 50 million 87 million 79 thousand 603 rupees .