The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested Labkumar Singh, a clerk serving at the Rautahat District Court, with a bribe of 50,000 rupees. According to the commission, Singh accepted the bribe from a service seeker in exchange for preparing an admission order and facilitating the release of land as per the court’s verdict. For this reason, he was apprehended from the court premises on Tuesday around 3:45 PM by the commission’s Hetauda office. On 17 Chaitra, Kathmandu, the CIAA stated that Singh was caught red-handed accepting a bribe during the process of drafting the admission order and securing land release according to the court’s ruling. The commission confirmed that the arrest took place inside the court compound while he was receiving the bribe.
