KATHMANDU: The Special Court has convicted three individuals in the Nepal Telecommunications Authority’s Teramax telecommunications traffic monitoring and fraud control system corruption case, while acquitting former minister Mohan Bahadur Basnet.
A bench of judges Hemant Rawal, Dilli Ratna Shrestha and Umesh Koirala found three former officials of the Nepal Telecommunications Authority guilty in the corruption case.
According to the verdict, former NTA Chairman Digambar Jha has been sentenced to one year in prison, while former board members Dhanraj Gyawali and Tika Prasad Upreti have each been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.
The court acquitted former minister Basnet of all charges.
Other defendants cleared by the court include Purushottam Khanal, Achyutananda Mishra, and Vanrise Solutions.
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