Let the State Law Committee investigate the gold case

In the meeting of the Nepali Congress parliamentary party, the option of giving the right to investigate the gold case to the parliamentary committee has been presented.

However, most of the leaders are unanimous that the commission or committee cannot be formed to affect the research being done by the state machinery.

At a time when the main opposition CPN-UML is disrupting the parliament demanding the formation of a high-level commission to investigate the gold issue, the Congress parliamentary party has presented an alternative.

Chief Whip Ramesh Akhtar has argued that the power to investigate the gold case can be given to the State Affairs Committee of the Parliament. The writer was of the opinion that this option would be the best as the parliamentary committee could not even call the Prime Minister and the ministers.

After the arrest of about one quintal of gold, the Revenue Investigation Department was investigating. Recently, the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of the police is investigating the gold case. The main opposition party, UML, has demanded the formation of a high-level commission as questions have been raised about the Minister of Home Affairs and Finance.

Congress called a meeting of the parliamentary party on Friday after UML blocked the parliament continuously since July 10 with the same demand. In the meeting, another MP, Dilendra Badu, expressed his support for the option put forward by the chief whistle-blower author to authorize the parliamentary committee to proceed with the investigation. Badu expressed the intention that the parliamentary committee could investigate the gold case.

In the meeting, the leaders also put forward the option of forming a high-level investigation commission to carry out the investigation. Leader Arjun Narasimha KC opined that a high-level commission can be formed under the leadership of a former Supreme Court sitting judge or former Chief Justice.

He said that a high-level commission can investigate without affecting the work done by the CIB. KC argued that the CIAB chief can be kept as a member of the high-level commission. Another leader, Udayashmarer Rana, did not argue in favor of a high-level commission but held the opinion that a commission could be formed as an alternative.

The opinion of most of the leaders who spoke in the meeting said that another commission or committee cannot be formed to affect the investigation being done by the state machinery.