The government attorney on Wednesday directed the police to initiate investigation against the chief of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Surya Nath Upadhyay on the citizenship scandal, a newspaper report said on Thursday.

The attorney office has asked the police to record Upadhyay’s statement on the case, reports Kantipur daily.

Upadhyay was implicated in the forgery when it was revealed that he had recommended the citizenship for Ramechhap dweller Lok Bahadur Bohara who had submitted false details in 1993, when he was a water resource secretary.

There has been no comment from the CIAA or Upadhyay himself regarding the controversy as yet.

Meanwhile, police have misplaced the original application submitted to the Kathmandu District Administration Office (DAO) by victim Tirtha Bahadur Bohara.

The latter had requested the DAO to cancel the citizenship.

Police mentioned in the file submitted Wednesday to the government attorney that the original application was missing due to some error.

The government attorney office has directed the police to investigate lapses and punish the culprits responsible for misplacing the original documents.