SC stays process to appoint Karki as CIAA chief

Lok Man Singh Karki

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the process to appoint controversial former chief secretary Lok Man Singh Karki as the chief of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).

A single bench of justice Sushila Karki stayed the appointment process until April 7. Advocate Om Prakash Aryal had filed the case, challenging the selection of Karki by the high-level four-party political committee to head the anti-corruption agency.

In the writ, Aryal argued that since the CIAA had earlier disqualified him to hold government office, his appointment to lead the same agency would be illegal.

Karki is known for pushing his way through the bureaucracy within a short period during the erstwhile royal regime and is accused of misusing state resources to suppress the Janandolan-2. Of late, he is allegedly close to UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Nepalnews.com