Kathmandu, March 27 -- The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority on Tuesday filed a corruption case at the Special Court against Raj Narayan Pathak, one of its former commissioners, on the charge of accepting Rs7.8 million bribe "to settle" the ownership dispute at a Bhaktapur-based college.

The case is rare as a commissioner of the anti-graft body himself has been embroiled in the corruption case.

After Pathak was found to have received the bribe to settle the dispute over ownership of the Changunarayan-based Nepal Engineering College in several audio and video records, Pathak resigned from his post on February 15. A complaint was registered at the CIAA against an attempt to capture the property of the college by the group...