New Delhi, Dec. 9 -- Nepal's anti-corruption body, the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), has filed a case against 55 defendants, including a Chinese construction company and several Nepali bureaucrats and former ministers, over the construction of the Pokhara International Airport.

As per a report by news agency ANI, the CIIA filed the case in a special court, naming Chinese firm China CAMC Engineering Co, the construction division of state-owned conglomerate Sinomach, and several others.

The Pokhara Regional International Airport, the CIIA said, had been approved by relevant authorities for construction at a cost of $145 million.

However, the CIIA alleged that China CAMC Engineering Co manipulated the cost est...