Nepal, Feb. 16 -- The Special Court on Thursday convicted over 100 individuals including former government secretaries in the illegal transfer of government land at Baluwatar as personal assets of private individuals, while acquitting the political leaders involved in making the decisions. It has also ordered confiscation of land from 65 individuals.

After three weeks of hearing in the case lodged by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, a full bench of the court comprising Khusi Prasad Tharu, Ram Bahadur and Ritendra Thapa convicted Deep Basnyat and Chhabi Raj Pant, former government secretaries, among others, for creating fake tenants for the land, and also officials of Dillibazar Land Management Office including ...