The Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed two separate cases against five persons on charges of corruption by registering public land with mal-intention at the Special Court on Monday.

The CIAA charge sheeted two former land revenue government officers of the Kawaseti Land Revenue Office Chiranjivilal Rajbhandary and Basudev Poudel along with three other people.

They have been charged of misusing public land worth Rs.10.08 million.

The CIAA has charged them of registering valuable public land located near Narayani River of Gaidakot VDC in the district by creating fake documents.

Likewise, Kirtinath Chalise, Laxmi Prasad Paudel, Lok Nath Sapkota of Nawalparasi district were charged of owning public land through illegal means.

The Commission has found that 40 ropanis of public land has been registered in the name Kirtinath Chalise, 26 ropanis in the name of Laxmi Prasad Paudel, 27 ropanis in the name of Lok Nath Sapkota, the CIAA sources said.

According to the Land Revenue Office, the minimum rate of the illegally occupied land was Rs 10.08 million but the maximum price of the land is worth more than 100 million rupees according to the ratio of day to day purchasing transaction of the area.

Meanwhile, the CIAA said that it had initiated investigation into many cases of irregularities related to public land encroachment.