Rastriya Swatantra Party President and former Managing Director of Gokha Media Group Rabi Lamichhane has been sent to jail for judicial custody on Monday.

He was arrested and sent to jail after the Tulsipur-Butwal Bench of High Court overturned the order of Rupandehi District Court to release him on bail of Rs 10 million in cooperative and organized crime.

Earlier, both the District Attorney's Office and Lamichhane had appealed to the High Court, stating that they were dissatisfied with the district court's order.

Rupandehi District Police Office SP Ranjit Singh Rathore said that Lamichhane was sent to jail in Bhairahawa after presenting him at the District Court following the order of the High Court.

Lamichhane, who was arrested in Kathmandu on Friday, was taken to Bhairahawa from Tribhuvan Airport on Saturday morning. Later, he was kept in custody at the District Police Office.

He was produced at the court today as there were holidays on Saturday and Sunday.

On January 19, the District Attorney's Office, Rupandehi, had filed a case in the Rupandehi District Court making President Lamichhane among others as defendants in connection with the fraud case of the Supreme Savings and Credit Cooperative Society in Butwal.