Court sentences peon

Kathmandu, Feb.28- The Special Court sentenced Hem Bahadur Rai, peon of Biratnagar Sub-Metropolitan city, to a two-and-a-half-year jail term together with a fine equal to the misappropriation of funds that he carried out.

The Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of the Authority Friday had filed a case at the Special Court charging Rai of embezzling Rs 1.6 million of the Sub-Metropolitan City.

It was proved that Rai had misappropriated the said amount that he had taken from the office to deposit at a Bank, the verdict said.