Kathmandu, July 10 -- Two officials of the Tribhuvan University Service Commission have been accused in yet another power abuse scandal, this time for promoting less qualified individuals to the post of professors.

Chaitanya Sharma, the chairman of the commission, and Parshuram Koirala, the administrative chief of the commission, both of whom have been suspended recently for manipulating the scores of job entrance tests to hire the kin of the university officials, are now facing the charge of meddling in the promotion process.

Several joint professors have filed a complaint at the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority, claiming that Sharma and Koirala worked in cahoots with Dilliram Upreti, the university registrar, and Sum...