The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police on Tuesday arrested Laxman Aryal, member-secretary of National Academy of Medical Science (NAMS), and three Bir Hospital officials on the charge of faking official documents to protect a convicted rapist. A police squad, deployed from CIB following complaints about the faking of NAMS and Bir Hospital documents, arrested Aryal from the hospital in the afternoon. DIG Hemanta Malla, chief of CIB, confirmed the arrest of the officials on the charge of faking the documents. Faking of the documents came to light after Uddhav Prasad Nepal, the convicted in a rape case, appealed to Appellate Court Patan with the said documents claiming that he was under hospitalization at the time of the rape. Sindhupalchowk District Court had convicted him about a year ago on the charge of raping a married woman. Nepal, who is serving time at the Central Jail in Kathmandu, had appealed to Appellate Court Patan claiming that he was innocent and that the woman had mastered-minded a plot to take revenge against him. While investigating the case, police established that the documents were faked by NAMS Member Secretary Aryal and Bir authorities. The documents clearly indicate that Nepal was admitted at Bir Hospital for some treatment that is at variance with the findings of the first investigation report of District Police Office Sindhuplchowk, according to hospital sources. The other arrested are Rajesh Karki, who was working at the emergency department at Bir. He was arrested on the charge of assisting the faking through the use of the stamp and letterhead of the hospital. The other arrested is Krishna Timilisina, a representative of an association of health workers at the hospital. Police investigators said that the faking was designed as per a request of a hospital official who is a relative of the convicted man.