Lawyers on behalf of Jaherwala have finished arguing against 7 people including Ravi Lamichhane in the Suryadarshan Cooperative fraud case on Thursday. Senior advocates Dinesh Tripathi and Surendra Bhandari, advocates Yuvraj Parajuli, Bed Bahadur Bista, RC Gautam and Hari Kattel argued demanding that the seven should be sent to jail for pre-trial detention.
According to advocate Parajuli, who participated in the debate, the legal practitioner presented the grounds and reasons for sending the seven people to judicial custody. At that time, legal professionals submitted arguments regarding one crore rupees from Suryadarshan Cooperative going to the name of Ravi Lamichhane . In the financial analysis report prepared by the expert team of Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality, it was mentioned that the loan was given in the name of Lamichhane, while during the police investigation, it was found that the loan application form was filled in the name of Ravi Lamichhane. In the said demand form, the address of Lamichhane is written in Pokhara-8 Srijan Chowk.
Regarding the lack of Lamichhane's signature on the demand form, the lawyer argued that the loan was withdrawn without completing the process with the intention of cheating. "Having taken a loan by being a shareholder, holding a mortgage, and completing the paperwork, there would have been no fraud," said Advocate Parajuli Ravi Lamichhane has been saying time and again that he is not. 'Who is the person who took the loan if not Ravi Lamichhane, the former deputy prime minister and home minister?' asked the lawyer of the plaintiff side in the courtroom, 'I am not that person, where has he (Lamichhane) applied so far to search and take action? '
The legal practitioner presented evidence in the court that even after resigning as managing director of Gorkha Media Network, he cut 14 checks and paid installments to various cooperatives. It has been proven that the money went from the cooperative to the Gorkha Media Network and the managing director and director had to find the source while spending the money.
It is seen from the documents attached to the missile that the defendants have embezzled the funds of the cooperative, the source of the assets has not been disclosed, there is a situation where the evidence can be destroyed if released on bail because of being a 'high profile' person, even though there was only a case of cooperative fraud before, six people including the owner of Gorkha Media are still in custody. Based on the concept of 'equal footing', the legal practitioner argued that the seven people who are in custody should be remanded.
In Suryadarshan Cooperative fraud case, Ravi Lamichhane, Chairman of RSWP, former DIG Chavi Lal Joshi, GB Rai's support Leela Pachai, owner of Nature Herbs Ram Bahadur Khanal, Cooperative's Founder Vision Committee Chairman and former Provincial Assembly Member Meena Gurung, his father former Vice President Krishna Bahadur Gurung, former Treasurer Aarti Gurung Kaski is in police custody. Advocate Parajuli said that the statements of the defendants were also contradicted. "The picture has burned Ravi and GB". Ravi has burned image and GB . Ram Bahadur has burnt the image,' he said, 'We argued in favor of sending the defendants to the preliminary investigation based on all these grounds and reasons.'
