Nepal, Feb. 15 -- The Special Court has acquitted three ministers in Lalita Niwas land grab scam while convicting some officials including government secretaries and middlemen involved in the land scam as the court gave its verdict on the case on Thursday.

The court gave clean chit to former deputy prime minister Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar, former ministers Chandra Deo Joshi and Dambar Shrestha. It, however, convicted former chief of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Deep Basnyat, former government secretary Chhabi Raj Pant. They have been given a two-year sentence and ordered to pay a fine worth Rs8.047 million.

On August 27, 2023, the District Attorney Office, Kathmandu had prosecuted 310 individuals, incl...