A decision has been made to file a corruption case against 55 people, including 5 former ministers and 10 former secretaries, in connection with irregularities in the construction of the Pokhara Regional International Airport.

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority is going to file a corruption case on Sunday, fixing a fine of about 8 billion rupees. The CIAA team has reached the special court a while ago with the charge sheet. The case is going to be filed by making former ministers Post Bahadur Bogati (late), Ram Sharan Mahat, Deepak Amatya, Ram Kumar Shrestha and Bhim Acharya as defendants. According to CIAA sources, suspended Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal Pradeep Adhikari and former Director Murari Bhandari have also been made defendants. Both are also defendants in the Nalinchok Heliport construction irregularities. Ram Krishna Timalsena, Sureshman Shrestha, Madhu Kumar Marasini, and 10 former secretaries, including the then coordinator of the airport construction study task force, who is also a former registrar of the Supreme Court, have also been made defendants. Pokhara Airport is a national pride project built with the help of a loan from China. The subcommittee under the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives had also directed the Authority to investigate the airport scam case in 2082, expressing its reservations.