{"id":48096,"date":"2026-05-20T19:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48096"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:29:18","slug":"former-minister-gupta-released-on-bail-of-rs-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/former-minister-gupta-released-on-bail-of-rs-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Minister Gupta released on bail of Rs 5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, May 20:<\/strong> The Supreme Court has ordered the release of former Minister Rajkumar Gupta, who was arrested for accepting a bribe, on a bail of Rs 5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The written order made public today by a division bench of Justices Sharanga Subedi and Sunil Kumar Pokharel on Tuesday states that former Minister Gupta be released on bail after the bail amount is secured.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Court, Kathmandu, has remained Gupta to judicial custody after the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority filed a case against him for allegedly accepting bribes to transfer Land Revenue Officials, when he was the Minister of General Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the apex court has sought a written response through the Attorney General&#8217;s Office within 24 hours on the reason behind the arrest of medical entrepreneur Durga Prasai.<\/p>\n<p>A single bench of Justice Mahesh Sharma Poudel issued the order today in response a habeas corpus writ petition filed by advocate Ashish Luintel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 20: The Supreme Court has ordered the release of former Minister Rajkumar Gupta, who was arrested for accepting a bribe, on a bail of Rs 5 million. The written order made public today by a division bench of Justices Sharanga Subedi and Sunil Kumar Pokharel on Tuesday states that former Minister Gupta be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48098,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48096\/revisions\/48098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}