Apr 05, Kathmandu- Rabi Lamichhane returned to his position as the President of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) party just five days ago. He immediately met Speaker Devraj Ghimire and demanded the lifting of his suspension from the post of MP. His post is suspended due to a money laundering case. However, he has been imprisoned in a cooperative fraud case.

The police arrested Lamichhane from Kathmandu after the Butwal bench of the Tulsipur High Court on Friday ordered him to be remanded in custody in the cooperative fraud case. He was arrested on Kartik 2 on charges of cooperative fraud. However, he was released on bail. However, he was not sent to police custody in the case related to the misappropriation of funds of the Supreme Savings and Credit Cooperative Society of Butwal. He was released on bail. The bench of Judge Pralhad Kumar Yogi had released him on a bail of Rs 10 million.

However, his partner, former DIG Chhabilal Joshi, the owner of Gorkha Media, was neither given a normal date nor released on bail. He was remanded in custody for trial. On Friday, in an appeal against the bail order, a joint bench of Justice Ramesh Dhakal and Justice Sanjeet Parajuli of the Tulsipur Butwal Bench of the High Court overturned the district court's order and ordered his remand. Immediately after the court's order, a team from the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office and the District Police Complex took him into custody. Now, Rabi will be taken to Rupandehi.