Kathmandu, Feb. 12 -- Former Nepal Oil Corporation Managing Director Gopal Bahadur Khadka has been released on date after posting a bail amount of Rs 20.5 million on Tuesday.

Khadka was presented to the Special Court on Tuesday, where a bench of Special Court Chairman Baburam Regmi, and members Pramod Kumar Shrestha and Narayan Prasad Pokharel demanded the bail amount of Rs 20.5 million.

Khadka faces a long list of corruption allegations during his long career in government services in different offices. The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority had, on January 7, filed a corruption case at the Special Court against Khadka on the charge of amassing property worth Rs186.6 million illegally.

Investigation has shown that Khad...