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Two held on ‘gold medal’ trade scam in TU



KATHMANDU: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested a student and staffer of Tribhuvan University for their involvement in gold medal trade scam.

Student Surendra Koirala, a student of MA in Economics, was arrested for bribing Ramu Karmacharya of Classified Section of Controller of Examination, Balkhu for tampering with the score and making him gold medalist.

The gold medal is given to those who are the most excellent student with the highest score.

The anti-graft body has arrested both Karmacharya and Koirala and investigating the case.

According to the deal, Koirala has assured Karmacharya of Rs 5,000 as a kickback.

Publish Date : 20 June 2019 08:39 AM

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