The Chitwan District Court has ordered the release of Rastriya Swatantra Party President Rabi Lamichhane on bail of Rs 5.4 million in connection with the Sahara Cooperative fraud case.

A single bench of Judge Dayaram Dhakal issued an order to release former Home Minister Lamichhane on bail of Rs 5.4 million.

Senior advocates Sushil Kumar Panta, Jagannath Paudel, Dharmaraj Acharya and Surendra Bahadur Thapa and advocates Ram Chanra Devkota and Dr Narayan Dutta Kandel argued on behalf of Lamichhane.

Similarly, District advocates Rabi Neupane, Sambhu Kumar Basnet, Dashrath Pangeni, Bholanath Niraula and assistant advocates Buddha Bahadur Thapa and Amrit Subedi argued on behalf of Nepal Government.

Likewise, senior advocates Dr Surendra Bhandari, Dinesh Tripathi and Raj Kumar Shrestha and advocates Gopi Lal Devkota, Ramesh Kafle, Ram Chandra Arasi Gautam and Sunita Adhikari argued on behalf of the complainant.

On Tuesday, a case was registered against Lamichhane accusing him of embezzling the funds of Sahara Cooperative.