Kathmandu – Rastriya Swatantra Party President Rabi Lamichhane has been released from the Rupandehi District Court in the cooperative fraud, organized crime and money laundering case after posting a bail of Rs 10 million. Along with the order to release him on bail, the Rupandehi District Court has ordered to freeze the assets of Lamichhane and others who have been made defendants in the Supreme Cooperative Fraud case.

After the closed argument, the bench of Judge Pralhad Kumar Yogi ordered to freeze the assets in the order seeking a bail of Rs 10 million from Lamichhane.

The order states, ‘The assets in the names of the defendants mentioned in the indictment shall be frozen in their current status so that they cannot be transferred in any way in accordance with Rule 92 of the Civil Criminal Procedure Rules, 2075 BS, and a letter shall be sent to the concerned Land Revenue Offices requesting them to send a reply.’