Kathmandu, July 3 -- The Tribhuvan University has accepted that one of its officials increased the marks scored by a master's student on several occasions to award him degrees of three subjects.

Ram Bahadur Karmacharya, chief of the Secret Department under the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, had taken bribes to manipulate the scores of Surendra Koirala, a student at Patan Multiple Campus.

Dilli Upreti, the university registrar, told the Education and Health Committee of Parliament on Tuesday that Karmacharya had taken thousands of rupees from Surendra to alter the latter's test scores on several subjects in the disciplines of sociology, economics, and rural development.

"The marks had been increased in five subjects in econo...