The Tulsipur, Butwal bench of the High Court has mentioned in the order the reasons why Ravi Lamichhane should not be released on bail. The court stated that it was found that Raswap chairman Lamichhane was not a media employee of Gorkha Media, but a shareholder and managing director of Gorkha Media.
According to the order of the High Court, 'the statement that he did not know how the money came from the cooperative for the financial transactions of the check-cutting organization and that he blamed other defendants in this regard does not seem credible at first sight.' According to the court order, Lamichhane's statement that he did not know that the media received money from the
cooperative was not credible. In addition, the order also mentions that Lamichhane brought money to the media illegally from cooperatives, which are the main base of the country's economy.
The court's basis for sending Lamichhane to prison
'The people's savings in the Supreme Cooperative Society, which is a pillar of the state's economy, came to Gorkha Media Pvt Ltd with the organized collusion of these defendants from the evidence, the money brought from the cooperative society by the information, planning and activism of the defendants, who are not employees of Gorkha Media, but are shareholders and managing directors. In view of the fact that he has stated that he does not know how the money came from the cooperative for the financial transactions of the organization by cutting that amount of checks and blaming other defendants in that regard, it does not seem credible at first sight.'
