Lalita Niwas land grab scam

[1] Prime Minister of Nepal Bhim Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana forcefully acquired 300 ropanis of land from hundreds of civilians and built a Subarna Mahal palace for his grandson Subarna Shamsher Rana during 1920s.

[4] On January 6 2022, the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police initiated legal proceedings against more than 300 people including senior ex-government officials.

[5] Some of the influential business houses include Goyal, Sarda, Chachan and Kedia groups.

Bhatbhateni Supermarket owner Min Bahadur Gurung and land brokers Shobhakanta Dhakal and Ram Kumar Subedi were found to have chiefly involved in bringing other business houses as partners.

Then ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) General Secretary Bishnu Prasad Paudel, also had bought a piece of land from the Gurung-Dhakal-Subedi group; Bishnu himself claimed to have purchased 8 Aana of land from Shobhakanta Dhakal's wife.