SC directs CIAA to attend Shahi case hearing

Kathmandu, Aug 15-The Supreme Court today directed the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) to attend a hearing on a corruption case filed by the anti-graft body against Home Minister Dan Bahadur Shahi. A division bench of Justices Kedar Prasad Giri and Hari Jung Sijapati said the CIAA should attend a hearing, scheduled for September 5 and put forth its arguments as it had filed the case. The order comes at a time when the CIAA is not showing keen interest in forwarding the case after Shahi was appointed the home minister following the February 1 royal take over. The bench also directed the CIAA to produce before it a separate case-file related to the incumbent secretary at the Ministry of Information and Communications, Lokman Singh Karki.