Nepal’s Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case at the Special Court in Kathmandu against four people accused of embezzling library grant funds at Shree Manne Dhunga Secondary School in Kuse Rural Municipality-2, Jajarkot. The accused are former school management committee chair Harichandra Jaisi, former head teacher Dhan Bahadur Singh, accountant Dhirendra Bahadur Singh and committee member Janak Bahadur Nepali. The commission is seeking Rs 1,741,446 from each of them.
Four people named in the case
The charges concern a grant allocated for the school library. The CIAA alleges that the funds were misused, and has taken the case to the Special Court, which hears corruption cases. The filing places the allegations before the court for consideration; it does not, by itself, establish that any of the four people is guilty.
The accused held different positions at the school and on its management committee. Jaisi was the committee’s chair at the time relevant to the case, while Singh was the former head teacher. Dhirendra Bahadur Singh served as the school’s accountant, and Nepali was a committee member. The commission has named all four in connection with the alleged handling of the library grant.
The case focuses on public funds designated for a school library at Shree Manne Dhunga Secondary School. The information released about the filing identifies the grant’s intended purpose and the four people charged, but does not provide details of how the money was allegedly spent or the specific actions attributed to each accused person.
Commission seeks Rs 1.74 million from each accused
The CIAA is seeking Rs 1,741,446 from each of the four defendants. If the requested amounts are added together, the total sought across the case is Rs 6,965,784. That figure is the combined amount of the commission’s claims against the accused; the commission’s stated request is for the same amount from each person.
The filing makes the alleged misuse of the library grant the central issue for the court. The case also names people who held school leadership, accounting and committee roles, but the available details do not specify whether the commission alleges that they acted together or what individual conduct it says each person undertook. Those questions will depend on the case presented before the court and the evidence considered in the proceedings.
No response from the four accused was included in the information about the filing. The allegations remain allegations unless established through the legal process. The case concerns one school in Kuse Rural Municipality-2, Jajarkot, and the commission’s stated recovery claim is tied to the library grant at that institution.
