KATHMANDU: The All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU), the student wing of CPN-UML, has filed a corruption complaint at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) against Birat Petroleum Company.
The UML student wing complained that the Birat Petroleum Company made a profit of Rs 40.5 million by selling petrol at higher price rate before it was reduced to Rs 99 per litre.
Earlier, the Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) had given a go-ahead to private importer Birat Peotrolem to sell purported Euro IV petrol at Rs 130, which is Rs 31 per litre dearer than the petrol sold by NOC.
The student union has demanded the CIAA instruct the Company to deposit around Rs 40.5 million in the state coffers that was earned from the sale of petrol in five days. A team led by ANNFSU Chairperson Nabina Lama met CIAA spokesperson Krishna Hari Pushkar and urged for a prompt investigation into the case and action against those involved in misappropriating fund and fuel in NOC.
In response, CIAA Spokesperson Pushkar pledged a prompt investigation into the case and action against those involved in fleecing the consumers, according to ANNFSU’s Vice-President Mahesh Bartaula. The Student Union is also set to launch market monitoring in a bid to curb the black marketeering of fuel.
