Supreme Court Postpones Hearing on Plea Against Withdrawal of Organized Crime Charges Against Rabi Lamichhane

Kathmandu. The hearing on the writ petition against the withdrawal of the charges of organized crime and money laundering filed against Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) Chairman Rabi Lamichhane, alongside the cooperative fraud case, has been listed for continued hearing on Tuesday.

The hearing on this writ petition has been ongoing since Monday before the bench of Supreme Court Justices Binod Sharma and Abdul Aziz Muslim. The hearing has now been scheduled for Thursday (Chaitra 12).

Attorney General Savita Bhandari had directed the District Government Attorney's Office to amend the cases of cooperative fraud, organized crime, and money laundering pending against Lamichhane in various districts.

Subsequently, Senior Advocate Dinesh Tripathi, law students Ayush Badal, and Yuvraj Poudel filed a writ petition against that decision. Attorney General Bhandari's seven-page 'Comment and Order,' ratified on Poush 30, directed the District Government Attorney's Offices to proceed only with the cooperative fraud case against Lamichhane and drop the other two serious charges.