According to the council member Shrestha, they have started looking into the court orders and verdicts. "We have been assigned to look into the related orders and verdicts as well as to find out reasons behind the controversy. We'll submit our findings at the council meeting and the council would decide further steps," said Shrestha.The council had decided to launch an investigation into the controversial verdicts and orders related to medical colleges last week after media published reports based on a sting operation where an official of the Universal Medical College claimed to have bribed some justices, judges and court officials.
Last week, the council had asked its secretary to collect documents related to the cases.
A sting operation against Dhruba Paudel, administrative officer of the Universal Medical College, conducted by the Center for Investigative Journalism, Nepal (CIJ), had revealed that medical colleges were bribing justices and judicial staffers to influence court verdicts in their favor. In the media report, Paudel had revealed that former chief justice Damodar Prasad Sharma, and justices Gopal Parajuli and Cholendra SJB Rana were involved in underhand dealings with the medical colleges and issued verdicts and orders in their favor.
Academia had been expressing doubts and dissatisfactions over those court orders that helped some medical colleges gain affiliations as well as avoid Nepal Medical Council's decision of reducing the student quotas. During his tenure at the Patan Appellate Court and the Supreme Court in the last two years, Justice Parajuli alone has given at least four orders that benefitted medical colleges.
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