The Supreme Court has ruled that the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) does not have the authority to conduct sting operations.
The Supreme Court’s (SC) verdict that prevented the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) from conducting a sting operation to arrest bribe takers has resulted in a sharp drop of cases filed by the authority charging them with corruption. “We are now unable to arrest bribe takers. So, we are devising new ways to arrest them,” said Narayan Risal, spokesperson for CIAA.
Although the CIAA had been arresting those taking kickbacks through the sting operation according to its rule 30, the authority is planning a new strategy to bring such wrongdoers to justice and control corruption in the process after the verdict, Risal added.
