Since they do not have to post any bail, they now only need to appear in court regularly on the day of their arraignment.
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The special court has ordered the release of five accused in the Pokhara Airport construction corruption case on a regular date.
The bench of special court members Narayan Prasad Poudel, Hemanta Rawal and Bidur Koirala ordered the release of the five on a regular date on Monday night. The special court said that they were released on a regular date on Monday itself.
Former secretaries Madhu Kumar Marasini, Mohan Krishna Sapkota, Suman Prasad Sharma, former deputy secretary Premnath Upadhyay and the then manager of Nepal Nagarik Ramchandra Subedi have been released. Since they do not have to post any bail, they will now only have to appear in court regularly on the day of their appearance.
Although they were present in the meeting as invited members, the special court ordered their release on a regular date, saying that it did not appear that they were directly involved in other stages of the procurement process.
The special court released them on a regular date, citing the legal provision that there is no need to keep them in pre-trial detention and that bail is not required. Former Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal Pradeep Adhikari, who was involved in the same case, was sent to detention in a case, while in the Pokhara Airport case, the Supreme Court had overturned the special court's bail order and ordered his detention.
