Kathmandu, Sep 21 (PTI) Nepal's Supreme Court has reopened a nine-year-old corruption case against Information and Communication Minister J P Gupta, a key Madhesi leader of Indian origin, for allegedly amassing disproportionate wealth worth Rs 2.5 crore.
A division bench of the apex court started the hearing in the case yesterday as government attorney Krishna Prasad Paudel pleaded on behalf of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, demanding action against the minister.
The anti-graft body had filed a case on charges of accumulation of disproportionate property against Gupta in 2002 but the Special Court gave him a clean chit in 2006.
Later, it filed an appeal seeking the apex court's intervention claiming that the ruling by the Special Court was illegal.
Gupta has been charged with amassing wealth worth Rs 2.5 crore through misuse of his power when he was minister in the past. Paudel claimed that since Gupta could not justify the source of his income, it was obvious that his property was accumulated by misusing power. Gupta, who played key role in forming the Maoist-Madhesi Front alliance last month, is the President of Madhesi Peoples Rights Forum - Republican. The anti-graft body had filed the case against him as per the report of High-Level Property Probe Commission, led by former Supreme Court justice Bhairav Prasad Lamsal. Next hearing in the Supreme Court is set for November 9.
A division bench of the apex court started the hearing in the case yesterday as government attorney Krishna Prasad Paudel pleaded on behalf of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, demanding action against the minister.
The anti-graft body had filed a case on charges of accumulation of disproportionate property against Gupta in 2002 but the Special Court gave him a clean chit in 2006.
Later, it filed an appeal seeking the apex court's intervention claiming that the ruling by the Special Court was illegal.
Gupta has been charged with amassing wealth worth Rs 2.5 crore through misuse of his power when he was minister in the past. Paudel claimed that since Gupta could not justify the source of his income, it was obvious that his property was accumulated by misusing power. Gupta, who played key role in forming the Maoist-Madhesi Front alliance last month, is the President of Madhesi Peoples Rights Forum - Republican. The anti-graft body had filed the case against him as per the report of High-Level Property Probe Commission, led by former Supreme Court justice Bhairav Prasad Lamsal. Next hearing in the Supreme Court is set for November 9.
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