CIAA holds government employee with bribes of Rs 1 million

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has held a government employee with a bribe of over Rs 1 million from Dhunibensi in Dhading district.

Santosh Sah, the chief engineer at the Nepal Water Supply Corporation, Butwal, has been charged with taking bribe of that amount from service seekers.

A team from the CIAA central office arrested Sah acting on a tip-off that he was traveling to Kathmandu with the bribe money. The bribes were over Rs 200,000 in cash and a receipt of over Rs 800,000 deposited in a bank.