KATHMANDU: The Commission for the Investigation for Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed cases at the Special Court against more than 100 people in the controversial Baluwatar Lalita Niwas land scam.
The CIAA has also filed a case against its former Chief Commissioner Dip Basnyat, former Deputy Prime Minister Bijay Kumar Gachchadar, former ministers Dambar Shrestha, and Chandra Dev Joshi on Wednesday.
Gachchhadar was made the defendant as he as the then Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Planning had taken a proposal in the cabinet for the expansion of the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar.
According to sources, the CIAA has made over 100 people as defendants.
“We have received cases against over 100 people,” a source at the Special Court told Khabarhub.
The government has initiated an investigation on encroachment of around 299 ropani of the land at Lalita Niwas land scam in Baluwatar smelling a rat in the deal.
A government’s investigation committee under former secretary Sharada Prasad Trital had earlier submitted the report to the government in December 2018 stating that the land transferred to the names of the individuals in Baluwatar actually belonged to the government.
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