Jun 19, Kathmandu: Minister for Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation Prem Bahadur Ale has insulted and slapped Nepal Airlines Chairman Uabaraj  Adhikari. Annapurna Post daily has reported that Tourism Minister Ale called Chairman Adhikari to his office and assaulted him with obscene language.

It is heard that Minister for Tourism Ale called Chairman Adhikari in his office and used obscene language even in the audio made public by Annapurna Post. Annapurna Post quoted a source in the Ministry of Tourism as saying that Minister

Ale had insulted and abused Chairman Adhikari saying that he had delayed giving jobs to the people he had recommended. Minister Ale had asked to keep a large number of people in Nepal Airlines (to give jobs to the person he sent.

Chairman Adhikari had hired some of them. Some were in the process of being put on. In the public audio, Minister Ale has even threatened the officer. Earlier, Minister Ale had threatened the officer on the telephone.

Headline Nepal  Presenter Sanjeeb Regmi has given the latest update on ministry ale and chairman Adhikari issues. According to him,  Adhikari had sexually assaulted a female employee when he was the head of the finance department of the corporation.

Subordinate employees had also filed a petition against her in the National Commission for Women. Ninety-one employees of the corporation had lodged a complaint against him with the National Human Rights Commission.

Employees had also submitted a petition to the then general manager of the corporation Sugatratna Kansakar regarding sexual violence. As soon as the violence was confirmed, the officer apologized and reconciled saying that he would not do such a thing again.

The reconciliation letter said, "We apologized and sat in the General Manager's office without any recurrence of the same mistake in the coming days and without any complaint from either side."

The officer called the female employee to his office and said, "Looking at her sensitive body, touching her, talking about sexual violence, giving her a good place to be transferred, going abroad, having fun with her, mentally torturing her, and seriously damaging her self-esteem.

" Complaints were lodged with the commission. It was also mentioned in the complaint that the employee was called to the office and threatened after learning about the complaint.

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