The CIAA had claimed that the contractor company had acted in a way that benefited the machine purchase. The special court has found Shravan Kumar Thapa, Surendra Prasad Chaurasia, Ashish Chauhan, Padya Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Sah and Sundar Bhusal guilty.
We use Google Cloud Translation Services. Google requires we provide the following disclaimer relating to use of this service:
This service may contain translations powered by Google. Google disclaims all warranties related to the translations, expressed or implied, including any warranties of accuracy, reliability, and any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement.
The special court has acquitted former Director General of the Department of Health Services Sangita Kaushal Mishra in a corruption case.
The bench of judges Narayan Prasad Poudel and Umesh Koirala of the special court acquitted Mishra. The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority had filed a corruption case against Mishra and 14 others in the special court on 2 Kartik 2082.
Along with former Director General Mishra, Bivek Kumar Lal, Bhuwan Prasad Kafle, Deepak Adhikari, Yadav Prasad Sapkota, Shambhu Prasad Dhakal, Sita alias Sita Ghimire and Tilak Ram Dhakal have also been acquitted.
Mishra, along with Vivek Kumar Lal, Bhuwan Prasad Kafle, Deepak Adhikari, Yadav Prasad Sapkota, Shambhu Prasad Dhakal, Sita Ghimire and Tilakram Dhakal, have also been acquitted. The commission had claimed that the work was completed in a way that benefited the contractor company from the stage of preparing the cost estimate in the mammography machine procurement process. The commission had claimed that 133.783 million rupees were paid without receiving all the materials as per the terms of the contract agreement.
The contract cost estimate of 127.5 million rupees was approved, while the supplier company Maxim Incorporation Traders Pvt. Ltd. had proposed 125.5 million rupees. It has been proven that confidential details were shared with the supplier company even before the contract process started and the entire procurement process was carried out in collusion.
The actual value of the goods sent from Italy to the manufacturing company General Medical Miretti was only about 68.5 million rupees, but the authority claimed that the department paid about 141.8 million rupees.
The special court has found Shravan Kumar Thapa, Surendra Prasad Chaurasia, Ashish Chauhan, Padya Mishra and Sanjay Kumar Sah guilty of corruption. They have been sentenced to 547,800 rupees each, a fine of 20,000 and 4 months in prison. Supplier Sundar Bhusal has been found guilty as a conspirator and sentenced to 547,000 rupees and a fine of 20,000.
