Nepal, March 29 -- The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Thursday filed a corruption case against 19 individuals, including two former chairmen of the Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA), and two firms.

The anti-graft body registered the case at the Special Court, accusing former chairmen of the authority, Digambar Jha and Purushottam Khanal, along with 17 others, of irregularities in the purchase of the Mobile Device Management System (MDMS) by the NTA.

Former senior director Ananda Raj Khanal of the NTA, incumbent directors Dipesh Acharya and Min Prasad Aryal, and deputy directors Binod Chandra Shrestha, Surendra Lal Hada and Rewati Ram Pantha have been made defendants in the case, according to a stateme...