Bara Ward Chair and Six Others Acquitted in Corruption Case

Kathmandu. Ward Chair of Pachrauta Municipality-6, Bara, Makbul Miya Ansari, and six others have been acquitted in a corruption case. A bench comprising Special Court Chairman Sudarshan Dev Bhatta and Judges Hemant Rawal and Umesh Koirala cleared the seven individuals of charges related to irregularities in senior citizen allowance payments. 

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had filed a corruption case at the Special Court on 2082 Magh 6 against Ward Chair Makbul Miya Ansari, three former ward secretaries, and three allowance beneficiaries. According to the charge sheet, the defendants were accused of facilitating senior citizen allowance payments by falsifying age records. They were charged with causing financial loss to the state by altering birth dates on copies of citizenship certificates.

Former ward secretaries Rajaram Prasad Sah, Peter Tharu, and Sangita Ghimire were accused of assisting in the distribution of allowances by entering altered citizenship documents and fraudulent details into the electronic records.

The CIAA had sought recovery of 476,000 rupees from Ward Chair Ansari, 252,000 rupees from former ward secretary Sah, 140,000 rupees from Ghimire, and 84,000 rupees from Tharu.