Kathmandu, July 16 -- The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority on Monday filed a case at the Special Court against eight individuals, including former vice-chancellor of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, on charges of irregularities during procurement of various equipment for the university.

Less than two weeks after a corruption case was filed against 10 Tribhuvan University officials on the charge of altering recruitment test scores to benefit their relatives, senior officials of another university have been charged of corruption- exposing anomalies in the country's education sector.

The defendants in the latest case are- Balbhadra Prasad Das, former vice-chancellor of the university; Arbindra Kumar Sinha, former ...