The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority on Sunday filed a corruption case at the Special Court against 13 individuals, including the former chief administrative officer of Bheri Ganga Municipality in Surkhet.

The anti-graft body charge-sheeted the then chief administrative officer Kamal Prasad Poudel, accounts officer Man Bahadur Thada, engineer Bijay Kumar Khatri, sub-engineer Motilal Prasad, planning officer Shishir Kumar Khadka, administrative officer Pitambar Paudel, technical assistant Ujjwal Rawat, kharidar (second-class non-gazetted officer) Santosh Tiwari, accountant Jeevan Somai and assistant accountant Chhabilal Sunar.

The CIAA also filed cases against the proprietors of construction companies: Hari Bahadur Budha Chhetri, Navaraj Dhakal, and Bhim Bahadur Budha Chhetri.

The anti-graft body filed corruption charges against them at the Special Court on allegations of working in collusion with the firms during the excavation, collection, and sale of riverbed materials in the fiscal year 2019-20. The CIAA has accused them of causing a revenue loss of Rs 3.6 million to the state.