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Kanak Mani Dixit, a leading Nepalese journalist and civil rights activist, was Friday arrested by the country’s anti-graft commission.
Dixit, editor and publisher of news magazine Himal Southasian, was arrested from his residence in Patan in the afternoon by around 20 police personnel deployed by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).
Dixit, who is also the chairman of Sajha Yatayat, the public transportation bus system in Nepal which serves Kathmandu Valley, has been accused of misappropriating money by misusing his public post.
The anti-graft body has been probing his property details on suspicion of “amassing property disproportionate to his known source of income”.
Dixit, 60, had been ignoring summons by the constitutional anti-graft body and was “on the run”, according to the CIAA. The commission said he had refused to cooperate with the investigation.
Dixit, however, said it was an act of vendetta on the part of CIAA chief Lokman Singh Karki. The Federation of Nepalese Journalists (Himalmedia Chapter), too, called it “a deliberately vengeful act by the chairman”.
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