{"id":48779,"date":"2026-06-01T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48779"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:02:10","slug":"special-court-orders-to-release-ex-speaker-mahara-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/special-court-orders-to-release-ex-speaker-mahara-on-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Court orders to release ex-Speaker Mahara on bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, June 1: The Special Court has ordered the release of former Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara on Rs 100,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of judges Sudharshan Dev Bhatta and Bidur Koirala issued the order to release Mahara on bail. The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had filed a case against Mahara at the Special Court on the charge of gold smuggling amounting to Rs 77.8 million by evading tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 1: The Special Court has ordered the release of former Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara on Rs 100,000 bail. A bench of judges Sudharshan Dev Bhatta and Bidur Koirala issued the order to release Mahara on bail. The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had filed a case against Mahara at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48779"}],"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=48779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48781,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48779\/revisions\/48781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}