{"id":49125,"date":"2026-06-08T22:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49125"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:39:06","slug":"ciaa-files-charge-sheet-against-birgunj-mayor-six-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/ciaa-files-charge-sheet-against-birgunj-mayor-six-others\/","title":{"rendered":"CIAA files charge sheet against Birgunj Mayor, six others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, June 8: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Monday filed a charge sheet against Mayor of Birgunj Metropolitan City Rajesh Man Singh and six others on charge of helping to accquire Nepali citizenship with the help of fake documents.<\/p>\n<p>The CIAA lodged the case against Mayor Singh and others at the Special Court on charge of preparing fake government documents, causing harm for the nation and being engaged in corruption by preparing ill-intended report, CIAA Spokesperson Suresh Neupane said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Neupane, Mayor Singh provided Nepali citizenship certificate to a daughter of a woman with surname Bhattarai in the name of Rubina Shrestha as Mayor Singh&#8217;s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, others facing chargesheet include ward secretary of Birgunj-3 Bhikhari Raya, ward member Tufail Akhtar Thakurai, then Administrative Officer of District Administration Office, Parsa, Shad Kumar Pokhrel, then Under Secretary of Home Ministry Pushkar Rana and Section Officer Parshuram Pokharel and Rita Bhattarai of Indrawati Rural Municipality-10 in Sindhupalchowk district, according to the CIAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 8: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Monday filed a charge sheet against Mayor of Birgunj Metropolitan City Rajesh Man Singh and six others on charge of helping to accquire Nepali citizenship with the help of fake documents. The CIAA lodged the case against Mayor Singh and others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49125","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\/49125"}],"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=49125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49127,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49125\/revisions\/49127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}