The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has lodged corruption case against the staffer involved in selling of gold medal of Tribhuvan University (TU) Ram Bahadur Karmacharya and student Surendra Prasad Koirala.
Acting campus chief of Baneshwore Multiple Campus, Shantinagar has also been charged of corruption.
Koirala, a part-time teacher at Bhaktapur Multiple Campus, had paid Rs 150,000 to Karmacharya to help him get the gold medal in economics. Koirala had also paid Rs 300,000 to Karmacharya to help his friend Kedar Bhattarai pass.
The CIAA, therefore, has charged Karmacharya and Koirala of taking Rs 450,000 in bribe, and Bhattarai of giving a bribe of Rs 300,000.
The CIAA has demanded that Rs 450,000 be seized from Karmacharya and Koirala, and they be fined an equal amount and sentenced for six months to 18 months each. It, similarly, has demanded that Rs 300,000 be seized from Bhattarai, and he be fined an equal amount and sentenced for six months to 18 months.
The CIAA has claimed that Karmacharya added 3-50 marks for Koirala in 15 papers of economics, rural development and sociology. Karmacharya has been found to have given marks even on the subject of sociology that Koirala did not sit for examinations.
The CIAA's chargesheet states that Koirala was given 224 extra marks after paying Rs 150,000. It, similarly, claims that Karmacharya increased Bhattarai's marks in five papers of economics by 10 each.
