KATHMANDU, April 18 -- Nearly 100 individuals own 114 ropani of Lalita Niwas land

It has been revealed that the brokers, who had illegally transferred the land belonging to Lalita Niwas, partnered with over half-a-dozen business houses.

The brokers who managed to illegally transfer ownership of the land in collusion with land revenue officials, ministers, political leaders and secretaries at various ministries, are found to have sold the land to country's some of the influential business houses such as Goyal, Sarda, Chachan and Kedia groups. The government had earlier acquired the same land by duly compensating the rightful owners.

"The main reason behind why the land mafia sold the Lalita Niwas land to big business houses and those wi...