Arraignment of the defendants, including Ravi Lamichhane, chairman of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RASWPA) and former deputy prime minister and home minister, accused in the embezzlement case of Suryadarshan Cooperative of Pokhara, has ended.
In the courtroom of Judge Nitij Rai of Kaski District Court, the closed debate on the case ended on Thursday with the reply of the government lawyers.
On Thursday Deputy Attorney Govindaraj Gowli of the High Public Prosecutor's Office and District Attorney Kamala Kafle of the District Public Prosecutor's Office made a counterargument. Rajan Khanal of the Kaski District Court informed that the argument was over and the order would be issued by 4 o'clock today.
The seven defendants of the case were being debated in the courtroom of Judge Rai since January 16th. After the debate of the legal professionals on behalf of the defendants, the legal professionals debated on behalf of the co-operative victims on Wednesday. There has been a heated debate on former DIG Chabilal Joshi, Leela Pachai, Krishna Bahadur Gurung, Ram Bahadur Khanal and others in the money embezzlement case of the cooperative.
The district attorney's office filed a case against 44 people, including Lamichhane, on charges of misappropriation of cooperative funds. Lamichhane is also facing charges of organized crime and money laundering along with co-operative fraud.
The public prosecutor's office has filed a case against 63 people in the district court of Kaski in the case of money fraud of Suryadarshan Cooperative. According to the District Public Prosecutor's Office, a case has been filed against 19 people including Lamichhane in organized crime. Along with Lamichhane, a case of money laundering is also going on against Khanal, Joshi and Pachai.
