Thursday, September 22, 2005

Charge-sheeted for Joint secy Singh

Kathmandu, Sept 22: The Commission for Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Wednesday charge-sheeted joint secretary at the Ministry of Education and Sports and former Controller at Office of Controller of Examination, Sanothimi Bhaktapur, Birendra Kumar Singh at the Special Court.

The Commission said it had initiated investigation against Singh in connection to the alleged financial irregularities as per the property assessment report of the high-level judicial committee for property evaluation 2058 and different complaints filed at the Commission against Singh.

As per the Corruption Control Act 2059, the Commission has filed the corruption case against Singh on charges of amassing property through illegal means while he was in the public posts. The Commission has demanded seizure of the property worth Rs 13.61 million kept in his and his family’s names and to forfeit equal amount.

The Commission found that he had purchased more than 9.8 of bigahas of land in Mahottari and Dhunasha districts and more than 1.3 ropanis land in Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts. The investigation also found that he had bought three houses worth Rs 8.6 million in the Kathmandu Valley.

He has also bank balances worth Rs. 1.2 million in his and his family members’ names in the different banks He was also found to have borne the cost of medical education of son Prabin Singh and daughter Sweta Singh in Bangladesh and Nepal Medical College, Jorpati, respectively The Commission also cautioned Section Officer at the Ministry Guru Prasad Mainali and technical assistant of mid-western regional education directorate Nirmala Niraula as they failed to maintain the honesty as public servants while tallying the marks of SLC examinations.

Similarly, the CIAA has instructed the Ministry of not to give the responsibility of checking the answer sheets of SLC to Krishna Prasad Baral, a teacher at the Nava Prabhat Secondary School in Pokhara. He was found of wrongly calculating the marks obtained in the SLC examinations of 2061 BS.

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