Kathmandu, March 18: The Kathmandu District Court has remanded employees of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and an industrialist to judicial custody for tampering electricity meters.
A single bench of Judge Purushottam Dhakal issued order against NEA employees Suman Shrestha, Manjit Shrestha, Bhagawan Pandey, Tahal Bahadur Karki and businessperson Tapan Ghosh on the same charge.
The accused will be taken to custody until their cases are settled, stated the verdict delivered on Friday in response to cases filed against 21 NEA employees and two industrialists for alleged power theft.
The District Attorney Office had registered a fraud case against the accused demanding Rs 22.7 million along with seven-and-a half year jail term to each.
Conducting a first hearing on this case, the court has also ordered concerned authority to release eight among the accused on bail and eight others on general date. RSS
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