Published on 12:00 AM, January 09, 2017

Anti-graft chief unfit for role: Nepal court

Nepal's Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the powerful head of the anti-corruption commission was not fit to hold the position and should be replaced, in an unprecedented move for the country's graft mired politics. Lokman Singh Karki has headed the Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) since 2013, despite myriad graft allegations against him.