The High Court had ordered Joshi's file to be submitted along with him after Lamichhane demanded to pay the amount as per the amount and fight the case outside the jail.
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The hearing of the case of Rastriya Swatantra Party President Ravi Lamichhane and then Gorkha Media owner Chhabilal Joshi, who are in custody on charges of fraud and organized crime against the Supreme Cooperative Society of Butwal, has been postponed again on Wednesday.
The hearing of Lamichhane, who was in custody, was also postponed after Joshi's legal practitioner filed a petition requesting a postponement in the Tulsipur High Court's Butwal bench of Justices Om Prasad Aryal and Tej Narayan Poudel, said the court's information officer, Ram Bahadur Kunwar. "Earlier, an order was made to present cases of the same nature together and since both of them are present at the same time, the hearing of both has been postponed due to the petition of one person for postponement," he said, "We will discuss it after the next presentation is scheduled."
Earlier, in Lamichhane's case, a bench of Justices Milan Kumar Rai and Om Prasad Aryal had ordered that both cases including Joshi's be kept together since they are cases of the same nature.
When Lamichhane demanded to pay the amount as per the amount and fight the case outside the jail, the high court had ordered that Joshi's file be presented along with him. Earlier, the Butwal High Court had ordered a request for a report on Lamichhane's case.
Despite the arson and vandalism in the Tulsipur Butwal bench of the High Court in the wake of the Gen-G protests, the case files of both Lamichhane and Joshi were preserved. Lamichhane, who was remanded in custody in the Supreme Cooperative Fraud case in Butwal, had filed a petition in the High Court on Bhadra 9 after the Rupandehi District Court did not release him even after he paid the amount of his share of the embezzlement in the cooperative. Earlier, he had filed a petition in the District Court demanding his release from the cooperative fraud case by paying the amount of his share. The bench of District Court Judge Narayan Sapkota had rejected his release after hearing his petition on Sharan 26.
A charge sheet has been filed against the defendants including Ravi in the Supreme Cooperative Fraud case, fixing a collective amount of Rs 109.936 crore. However, Lamichhane had submitted a document stating that he had paid one part of the four parts of the amount. Lamichhane had submitted a bank guarantee of Rs 27.484 crore with the application.
Like Lamichhane, Joshi had also submitted a guarantee for the same amount. However, in the case of both the defendants, the same order was made that they should not be released since it was not certain how much amount would be retained for their share.
Both Lamichhane and Joshi are in jail for the trial. Lamichhane, who is in Bhairahawa prison, has been transferred to Nakhkhu prison in Lalitpur, while Joshi is in Bhairahawa prison.
