CIAA wins 350 of 540 cases filed

Kathmandu, March 11- The Commission of Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has been successful in 350 of the total of 540 cases that it filed at the Special Court, Kathmandu and the Appellate Court, Lalitpur as of now.Of the filed cases, 47 became unsuccessful for lack of necessary evidences, it is said.

About 30,000 complaints have been lodged at the commission in connection with the submission of fake educational certificates in obtaining new jobs and getting promotions.The commission is to recover a total of Rs. 75 million from different persons and organisations on the conviction of committing irregularities during the last six years, said joint secretary at the commission Ratna Kaji Bajracharya .

Meanwhile, Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a case at the Special Court against Krishna Bahadur Kunwar, a godown security guard at Nepal Bank Limited (NBL), Siddharthanagar branch for committing corruption by presenting a fake certificate of academic qualification for the purpose of job promotion.The CIAA has charged Kunwar of presenting a fake certificate of the Intermediate level that he had acquired from the Secondary Education Council, Uttar Pradesh, India for getting promotion.

Similarly, the CIAA has filed a case against senior assistant cashier at the NBL Dang branch Kumbha Singh Pun at the Special Court for committing corruption by presenting a fake certificate of academic qualification for getting promotion.

The CIAA charged Pun of presenting a certificate of Intermediate level academic qualification that he acquired from the Secondary Education Council, Uttar Pradesh, India for getting promotion.The anti-corruption body has claimed that Pun committed corruption under the Corruption Control Act 2017 BS and 2059 BS by presenting the fake certificate of academic qualification and demanded punishment as stipulated in the same Acts.

Likewise, CIAA filed a case at the Special Court against Hem Kumari Bhattarai, a primary level school teacher at the Mangalmaya Secondary School, Lakhanpur, Jhapa on the charge of presenting a fake certificate of secondary education qualification that she acquired from the Bihar School Examination Council for appointment purposes.