Supreme Court to Hear Appeal in Corruption Case Against Former Land Revenue Official Found Guilty in Six of Seven Charges

The case against Madankumar Gupta, the former Naib Subba (NASU) of the Bara Land Revenue Office, who was found guilty in six out of seven corruption cases filed against him, has been scheduled for hearing at the Supreme Court.

The case is scheduled for hearing on Friday before a joint bench comprising Justices Nahakul Subedi and Sunil Kumar Pokharel.

When the corruption case was filed in Jestha 2076 BS, Gupta had already completed 29 years in government service. During his three-decade tenure, he was found to have amassed assets exceeding NPR 190 million while drawing a salary and allowances of approximately NPR 2.8 million. Consequently, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed seven corruption cases against him.

Out of the seven cases filed by the CIAA, Gupta was convicted in six, while he was acquitted in one. According to the charge sheet, he had misappropriated government revenue while working in various land revenue offices. The case was filed after it was confirmed that he had embezzled revenue using fake receipts from land revenue offices and banks.

He was charged with five counts of revenue misappropriation, one count of destroying government documents, and illegal asset acquisition. Two additional incidents of revenue leakage were discovered during further investigation, leading to the filing of the sixth and seventh cases.

The bench of the then Special Court Chairman Teknarayan Kunwar and members Tejanarayan Singh Rai and Ritendra Thapa sentenced him to imprisonment and fines in various cases. Gupta is currently in prison.

In one case of revenue misappropriation, Gupta along with another accused, Nagendra Prasad Chaudhary, was sentenced to four years in prison. Both were ordered to pay back NPR 4.754 million in principal and a fine double that amount, NPR 9.508 million.

Sentences in Each Case:

• First Case - In the charge of misappropriating NPR 25 million in revenue while at the Land Revenue Office, the Special Court sentenced him to 6 years in prison, a fine of NPR 138 million, and a principal recovery of NPR 69 million.
• Second Case - Sentenced to 9 months in prison and a fine of NPR 25,000 for destroying government documents.
• Third Case - He was acquitted in the case filed on the charge of misappropriating NPR 45.8 million at the Simara Land Revenue Office.
• Fourth Case - Convicted of causing a loss of NPR 778,600 at the Parsa Land Revenue Office, sentenced to 6 years in prison and a fine of approximately NPR 10 million.
• Fifth Case - Sentenced to one year in prison and a fine for illegal asset acquisition, with a principal amount of NPR 28.9 million established.
• Sixth Case - In the NPR 1.237 million misappropriation case, he was sentenced to one and a half years in prison, a fine double the principal amount of NPR 618,500.
• Seventh Case - In the case demanding a principal of NPR 9.5 million, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison, a fine of NPR 9.508 million, and a principal recovery of NPR 4.754 million.

The final hearing for all these cases will now take place in the Supreme Court.