What’s Behind Acquittal of health officials’ corruption

KATHMANDU, Jan 21: Now it’s widely questioned what’s behind cquittal of top healt officials by the Special Court on Thursday.

Lokman Singh Karki

Thursday the Special court had acquitted the then Director General Dr Mingmar Gyelzen Sherpa and 10 officials of the Department of Health Services of corruption charges.

The Nepals ambudsman Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had moved the court against them.
Taking the hering of the case The court had clearify them  in  anti-graft body.

They were accusee of misappropriatin the public funds in  importing medicines for pregnant women in remote hilly region of Nepal. CIAA had also sought a total fine of Rs 72,713,908 from all the accused.

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The then chief of Supply Management Division of the Department of Health Dr Naresh Pratap KC, the then senior director of the same division Krishna Bahadur Chand, and serving officer of Procurement Unit of the Supply Division Pawan Koirala were accused of missusing the public fund.

On the same way, last year, the court had given clean chit to public health officer Ram Sundar Yadav and public health inspector Hemlal Gyawali saying that the C I AA could not provid evidences of their involvement in irregularities as charged by the CIAA.

Most or the cases are unsuccessful in front or the bench or Special court, why?

Now its interrogatted why court is regularly compelled  to give the clean chit?