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CIAA nabs engineer red-handed with bribe



KATHMANDU: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested Acting Chief of Water Resource and Irrigation Division Office Patan Suresh Raj Bhattarai.

Engineer Bhattarai was arrested with Rs 100,000 kickback on Thursday.

The anti-graft body said that he was arrested red-handed with the bribe he had demanded from a service seeker.

Publish Date : 19 February 2020 19:10 PM

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