Rupandehi District Court has released Ravi Lamichhane, the then managing director of Gorkha Media Network Pvt Ltd, on bail of Rs. Based on the evidence immediately obtained in the Supreme Cooperative Fraud, the court said, "There is no reason to believe that the defendant (Lamichhane) did not commit any crime" and ordered that the present case be released on bail.

District Judge Prahlad Kumar Yogi, after presenting various facts and bases, has ordered to take a bail of 1 crore rupees, a surety or a bank guarantee with conditions and keep it on a date, and if he fails to pay it, he should be sent to jail. Lamichhane has taken the date after paying the bail. 

Mortgage and necessary documents from Supreme Cooperative, 20 million loan was accepted without proof and 4 lakh was deducted for service fee and 19.6 million was collected in the joint name of Gorkha Media in Global IME Bank account no. 0040010000577 is mentioned in the order that the fact was found. Similarly, during Lamichhane's tenure, Gorkha Media received 100 million 999 million 36 thousand rupees from Supreme Cooperative in the audit report. 

Judge Yogi, who was accused of co-operative fraud, has also based his statement that Gitendrababu (GB) Rai and Ravi Lamichhane are responsible for all issues and financial transactions of Gorkha media. The order also mentions the report of the financial analysis which found that Lamichhane, the then Managing Director of Gorkha Media, was conducting financial transactions. 

Accused Omprakash Gurung and Kumar Ramtel, while they were in charge of the managing director of Lamichhane Gorkha Media, mobilized the money collected from Supreme Cooperative in Gorkha Media's bank account and the management or use was done by the signature of Lamichhane and Ravi Lamichhane and Gorkha mentioned in the internal letter regarding loans of Supreme Cooperative. Lamichhane, the then Managing Director of Media, said that he was the same Based on written practice. 

"Gorkha Media's accountants Sanjay Adhikari and Rajni Shrestha prepared checks as per the order and sometimes signed them for Gitendrababu Rai and Ravi Lamichhane when he was not present," the order states. 

Judge Yogi has also referred to the report of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee that Rs. 75 lakh was deposited in the bank account of Gorkha Media in the name of the defendant Lamichhane. Global IME Bank account no. 0040010000577, Nabil Bank account no. 01901017502181 and Civil Bank account no. 00210612110012 Lamichhane and others operated under a joint name and the check was issued under the signature of Lamichhane and it was also mentioned in the order that Lamichhane stated that he was the correct person in the check issued from that account.  Before the

order was issued, Raman Kumar Karn argued on behalf of Jaherwala and argued that Lamichhane had accepted that the signature of Gorkha Media's check was his own, and that since Supreme had made unsolicited and mortgage loans to Gorkha Media, his involvement in organized crime would be confirmed, and that he should be sent to prison pending trial. Attorney Premraj Paudel on behalf of the Public Prosecutor's Office also demanded to keep him in custody as he had evidence of involvement in financial transactions.

Attorney Paudel said that after studying the order, he will come to a conclusion on what to do next. "We collected the facts and evidence of the crime committed by the defendant and demanded an order to keep him in custody," he said.

The District Public Prosecutor's Office registered a case against Lamichhane, the then managing director of Gorkha Media, in the Supreme Cooperative fraud and organized crime in Rupandehi District Court on January 6. In the indictment, 55 million 59 lakh 83 thousand bigos have been demanded against Lamichhane for 20 million individuals and 22 people including him in cooperative fraud. Similarly, it is claimed that 100 million 99 lakh 36 thousand bigos should be imposed against Lamichhane, Chabilal Joshi and Lakshmi Prasad Paudel in organized crime. There is also a demand for 6 to 8 years imprisonment for cooperative fraud and an additional 5 years imprisonment for organized crime.