What you should know
In the case of Top Bahadur Rayamazhi, the suspended secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal (UML), who has been in pretrial detention for two years in the fake Bhutanese refugee case, the trial has been scheduled for July 18.
Deepak Kumar Shrestha, information officer of the Kathmandu court, informed that since the statements of those who filed the complaint and the witness's refusal letter in the case against the former Deputy Prime Minister and Arghakhanchi elected and currently suspended MP Rayamazhi and others have been completed.
Premraj Panthi, while presenting the witness statement of the case of 'fraudulent writings and crimes against the state and organized crime', mentioned that he had only signed the complaint at the District Police Office in Tekuma and that he had not done anything else. During the cross-examination by lawyer Dharmaraj Regmi, Panthi has given a written statement that Sanu Bhandari and Keshav Dulal, the original defendants, were invited to the restaurant of Tank Gurung, but former minister Rayamazhi and his personal secretary Leela Jisi were not present in those meetings.
Panthi, a lawyer, informed that he did not mention that when he wrote the complaint and that he only met Sanu Bhandari on the fourth floor of Everest Hotel and did not meet Rayamazhi. According to him, the case of former minister Rayamazhi has been pending for 29 months. In that case, Keshav Prasad Dulal, Sanu Bhandari, Sandesh Sharma were also made the main defendants, and former minister Rayamazhi was made an assistant defendant. District Police Office, Kathmandu issued an arrest warrant on 20th Baisakh 2080 and arrested him on 31st Baisakh 2080.
The single bench of Judge Prem Prasad Neupane of District Court of Kathmandu had detained Rayamazhi along with him for pre-trial detention.
Rayamazhi filed a writ petition in the High Court and the Supreme Court against the District Court's decision to "release him on bail and fight the case", and the District Court's decision was upheld.
In the same case, Nepali Congress leader Balkrishna Khan, Rayamazhi's son Sandeep Rayamazhi, Angtawa Sherpa and Gobind Chaudhary, who were in pretrial detention by the order of the district court, were released on bail by the order of the Supreme Court. Regarding the speech of Teknath Rizal, who is a co-defendant in the same case, the High Court, Patan had ordered that Rizal was mentally ill.
