KATHMANDU, Feb. 18 -- Amid widespread demand to arrest Raj Naryan Pathak, a controversial former commissioner of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), the parliament as well as the anti-graft body, which are supposed to take action against him, have been passing the buck to each other.

Their reluctance to take action against Pathak comes after the CIAA commissioner resigned from his position admitting that he received Rs 7.8 million in bribe from the college management committee of a Bhaktapur-based college. The parliament, which had initially vowed to probe the bribe case and impeach Pathak, is now passing the buck to the anti-graft body arguing that taking action against Pathak falls under the jurisdiction ...