Supreme Court to Hear Plea Against Withdrawal of Organized Crime and Money Laundering Charges Against Rabi Lamichhane

Kathmandu. The case filed against the withdrawal of the indictment related to the organized crime and money laundering charges, filed alongside the cooperative fraud case against Rabi Lamichhane, the chairman of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), is scheduled for hearing today.

The hearing is scheduled for Sunday in a joint bench of Supreme Court Justices Saranga Subedi and Sunil Kumar Pokharel.  

Senior Advocate Dinesh Tripathi, law students Ayush Badal, and Yuvraj Poudel had filed a writ petition against the decision after Attorney General Savita Bhandari directed the District Government Attorney's Offices to amend the cooperative fraud, organized crime, and money laundering cases pending in various districts against Lamichhane.

Attorney General Savita Bhandari, through a 7-page 'Comment and Order' endorsed on Poush 30, had directed the District Government Attorney's Offices to proceed only with the cooperative fraud case against Lamichhane and drop the other two serious charges.

Although applications were submitted to the Kaski and Rupandehi District Courts according to the directive given by Attorney General Bhandari, the hearing could not take place because the case is sub judice in the Supreme Court. In accordance with the directive of the Attorney General's Office, the government attorney's offices in Kathmandu and Parsa have not yet filed applications in the District Courts to amend the indictment including Lamichhane.