High Court order to drop co-operative fraud case
Former Home Minister Ravi Lamichhane and former DIG Chabilal Joshi, who are in Rupandehi Jail, have refused to understand the letter informed by the Pokhara High Court.
The court sent a letter to Lamichhane and Joshi, who are in Rupandehi jail, informing them of the payment. Rupandehi has sent the information to Pokhara High Court that they have not signed the letter on Sunday.
The case related to cooperative fraud, organized crime and money laundering in which Lamichhane is also involved is being heard in Pokhara from Thursday on a petition demanding the annulment of the Kaski court's order.
Sunday Chief Justice Dr. The joint bench of Ratna Bahadur Bagchand and Justice Milan Kumar Rai directed the Petition Branch to submit a report with clear details about whether the respondent refused to understand the letter or the signature was not signed for other reasons. As the
command states, Is it not signed because of the refusal to understand the letter informed by the court, or is it not signed for some other reason? I will send a written report to the prison office, Rupandehi to inform them with the report of the same incident and to send the compensation if the defendants understand the payment information.' After receiving the letter from Rupandehi, it has been ordered to be attached to the missile.
Court has also ordered to throw out the complete missiles of two cases filed in the Kaski district court. According to the said order, the case registered on 080 October 18 related to co-operative fraud in which Gobind Adhikari and others are the plaintiff and Gitendrababu Rai and the defendant in the complaint and the case registered on 081 January 7 with additional accusations have been asked to be taken out.
Pokhara High Court Sub-Registrar Neel Paneru said that even if Lamichhane and Joshi did not understand the letter, the court process would not be stopped. "Even if someone does not want to understand the date, it is customary to leave it at home or take out a notice in the newspaper, the court process does not stop," he said, "even in this case, we are considered to have given the information after sending the letter." He said that the date of the next payment will be set after the missile and the report.
On Friday, lawyers from Lamichhane's side objected that the hearing was continued without informing them. After that, the bench kept the case on 'watching' for Sunday .
Earlier, the bench of Judge Nitij Rai of Kaski District Court had ordered the release of Lamichhane on a bond of 65 lakh rupees. Against that order, both parties appealed to the Pokhara High Court.
Ravi Lamichhane has demanded that he should be released on a normal date, while the public prosecutor's office has taken the stand that he should be kept in prison. The hearing on both the appeals has started in the High Court from Thursday .
