The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on
Tuesday lodged a corruption case at the Special Court against 24
officials of Pokhara University including Vice-Chancellor Khagendra
Prasad Bhattarai for embezzling university fund.
The anti-graft
body issuing a statement has accused them of misusing the fund while
providing college affiliation, in the name of transportation in spite of
the vehicle provided by the office, providing illegal donation,
misappropriation of university fund apportioned for infrastructural
development, consultancy among others .
The commission has
charged the 24 accused as per Sec 3 of Prevention of Corruption Act 2002
and a total of Rs. 22.41 million in fine has been sought from the
subsequent accused .
