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Court orders release of Bikram Pandey, 10 others on bail in PPMO hacking case

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Kathmandu, May 14

One person has been sent to judicial custody on charges of hacking the website of the government's Public Procurement Monitoring Office (PPMO) and manipulating contract bid rates.

A bench of Judge Churaman Khadka of the Kathmandu District Court ordered the detention of Diwakar Deuja, a computer operator working at the Intensive Urban and Building Construction Project in Dhankuta, pending trial.

The court demanded a bail amount of Rs 1 million from his associate, Bhaskar Raj Aryal.

Meanwhile, the court ordered the release of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) leader Bikram Pandey on a bail of Rs 400,000.

It also ordered the release of other defendants on bail. Among them, it sought a bail amount of Rs 1 million from Sanjay Bhatta; Rs 500,000 each from Jeevan Kumar Das and Sagar Katuwal; and Rs 400,000 each from Prakash Dhungana, Amrit Bohara, Anil Shrestha, Tanka Kumar Shrestha, Swadesh Pokharel, and Rishikesh Gauli.

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Published Date: 2026-05-14 19:14:59

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