KATHMANDU, Feb. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- The Nepali government released former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and Prakash Man Singh, a former minister, from jail at midnight Monday.

    They were released after the Supreme Court (SC) of Nepal on Monday ordered dissolution of the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC), an anti-graft body constituted by King Gyanendra about one year ago.

    The RCCC on July 26, 2005, slapped a two-year jail sentence and 90 million Nepali rupees (1.29 million US dollars) fine to both Deuba and Singh in its verdict on their alleged irregularities in the contract awarding process of a multi-million dollars drinking water project during Deuba's last tenure. Enditem