Kathmandu, July 10 -- Last week, the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority filed a corruption case against around a dozen senior officials from Tribhuvan University.

They have been charged with manipulating marks of some candidates who had taken exams for jobs in the university. The anti-graft agency said the officials in question had increased the marks obtained by them, who are said to have close relations with the officials, to ensure they got the job, depriving the deserving candidates of the opportunity.

A day before the commission filed the corruption case, senior officials of the university admitted before a House committee that an official at the Office of the Controller of Examinations was involved in increasing th...