By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, May 16, 2023As the government is being praised for ‘catching big fish’ in the fake Bhutanese refugee scam, demand is also building from various quarters for an impartial investigation into alleged corruption in Maoist cantonments. The case dates back to 2007 when the then government had decided to provide Rs5,000 a month to as many as 19,602 former Maoist combatants camped in seven cantonments and 21 satellite…
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By Prithivi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, May 15, 2023The public outrage sparked by the news of creation of fake Bhutanese refugees to send them to the United States is growing. There are daily protests on the streets. The Parliament is in uproar. Top political leaders seem to be scrambling to try to contain the scam’s fallout. The Post’s Prithvi Man Shrestha talked to Surya Nath Upadhyay, former chief commissioner of the Commission for…