Former vice-chancellor of Rapti Academy of Health Sciences (RAHS) Dr Sangita Bhandari has been implicated in corruption during procurement of health equipment.
The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed a corruption case on Thursday against 20 individuals including Dr Bhandari.
According to CIAA spokesperson Suresh Neupane, there was corruption of Rs 73,182,985 during the purchase of a CT scan machine for the RAHS.
Spokesperson Neupane informed that the corruption case was filed at the Special Court on Thursday against 20 individuals including Dr Bhandari and other former employees of the RAHS.
The then acting registrar Kailash Prasad Dev, director Dr Sagar Panthi, head of the radiology department Dr Bom BC, biomedical engineers Sharad Bhandari and Ashutosh Bhandari, consultant biomedical engineer Amit Kumar Chaudhary, and lecturer Dr Shrisiya Pokharel have also been implicated in the case.
Neupane added that the then section officers Jhankar Lamichhane, Leela Kumari Devkota, and Megh Bahadur Adhikari, IT officer Hira Lal Bhandari, accounting officer Rajiv Basnet, pharmacy supervisor Krishna Prasad Joshi, staff nurse Bindu Paudel, physiotherapist Puja Thakur, computer assistant Satish Bahadur Shah, Himalayan Meditech Pvt Ltd., and the company's promoters Amar Shrestha and Sanju Rajkarnikar have also been named defendants in the case.
The CIAA has also demanded recovery of Rs 73,182,985 from each of the defendants.
