Rastriya Swatantra Party Chairman and former Managing Director of Gorkha Media Pvt. Ltd has filed a writ at the Supreme Court against the order of the Tulsipur Butwal bench of the High Court to send him to prison for judicial custody.
Supreme Court Information Officer Assistant Spokesperson Nirajan Pandey informed that the petition on behalf of Lamichhane has been registered and the hearing has been scheduled for Sunday.
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.
Lamichhane has demanded that the order be annulled and that he should be allowed to fight the case from outside.
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.
