The CIAA filed a corruption case in the Special Court on Wednesday against the then chairman of the National Land Commission, District Committee, Kaski, Ganga Prasad Pokhrel, the commission's Kaski member and chief land revenue chief Ram Chandra Adhikari, members As Bahadur Gurung, Umakumari Thapa and Som Bahadur Nepali, and Bhim Bahadur BK, who acquired land using fake land documents, by fixing a fine of Rs 14.25 crore each.
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A corruption case has been filed against six people, including the then chairman of the Kaski Land Commission and the then head of the Kaski Land Revenue Office, on charges of misappropriating school land in collusion with individuals.
The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed a corruption case in a special court on Wednesday against the then chairman of the National Land Commission, District Committee, Kaski, Ganga Prasad Pokharel, the commission's Kaski member and chief land revenue chief Ram Chandra Adhikari, members As Bahadur Gurung, Umakumari Thapa and Som Bahadur Nepali, and Bhim Bahadur BK, who acquired land using fake land documents. The charge sheet filed by the CIAA in the special court states that a fine of Rs 14.25 crore each has been imposed on all the defendants, as per the amount, imprisonment and a demand for recovery of an amount equal to the amount.
The CIAA stated that the case was filed against those involved after the investigation confirmed that the 3 ropani 3 anna land under the ownership of Amar Jyoti Basic School in Kandhani Danda, Pokhara Metropolitan City-26, Kaski was transferred to the name of a person with the connivance of the chief of land revenue and officials of the Land Commission. According to the CIAA, it has been revealed that the land was seized by vacating the palace of the person who had worked in the name of Bhim Bahadur BK's wife, Sukmaya Kami. It has been revealed that the land was seized by forcing Bhim Bahadur BK to submit an application to get the land. It is mentioned that the commission officials and the Land Revenue Chief conspired to make BK a landless squatter even though he was not a squatter.
'Although it is not a squatter, it is seen that the squatter was created based on false details, the then Slumdog Problem Resolution Commission, Kaski, in the name of Sukmaya Kami, the wife of the defendant Bhim Bahadur BK, in the capacity of a squatter, on 2052 Bhadra 5, 2052, in the name of Sukmaya Kami, the former Kandhani Dandagaun Development Committee, and the landowner registration list revealed the reason/fact that was revealed from the information provided to the defendants other than civil servants and civil servants, knowing that the husband of the same household, Bhim Bahadur BK, was not a person within the definition of a squatter as per the prevailing law, and that the act was done with the intention of taking illegal benefits between the defendants, since it is seen that the land was made public on that date by the then Slumdog Problem Resolution Commission, Kaski; The commission's charge sheet states that BK had applied to the National Land Commission, District Committee, Kaski to provide him with the said land as per the Procedure for Completing the Remaining Work of Previous Commissions, Committees and Task Forces, 2078 BS. The land was taken over in BK's name by the Land Revenue Department, Kaski, on 5 Chaitra 2080 BS using forged documents.
