In Nepal, former minister and Nepali Congress leader Chiranjivi Wagle, who was convicted by the Supreme Court (SC) on corruption charges, was arrested from his residence in Kathmandu on Thursday. The Supreme Court had earlier sent a copy of the judgment to the Kathmandu District Court for implementation of the verdict on Wagle. The Supreme Court on Wednesday convicted the former minister and sentenced him to eighteen months in prison and 20.3 million rupees fine.A division bench of Chief Justice Ram Prasad Shrestha and Justice Khil Raj Regmi had handed the decree on Wagle’s case after upholding a verdict by the Special Court on him, on charges of amassing disproportionate property while he was in power in 1990’s. The court concluded that Wagle had amassed wealth disproportionate to his income and his explanations could not justify his property. In 2004, the Special Court, responding to a case lodged by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, had convicted Wagle and slapped on him a two-and-half year sentence, with 2.72 million rupees in fine on graft charges.