Kathmandu, June 22 -- Nepal's anti-graft agency, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), filed a corruption case against 16 individuals, including the Member Secretary of Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT), on Sunday.

The anti-graft agency booked Milan Kumar Thapa and 15 others as defendants in a case registered at the Special Court regarding procurement irregularities related to the electric crematorium project.

According to CIAA, the accused colluded to embezzle over NRs 103.3 million by deliberately inflating costs and violating public procurement rules in the purchase and installation of cremation machines at the electric crematorium located at Pashupati, Aryaghat.

"The CIAA's investigation has found...