KATHMANDU: The hearing on a habeas corpus petition concerning Rastriya Swatantra Party Chair Rabi Lamichhane, currently in custody at Bhairahawa prison in connection with the Supreme Cooperative savings embezzlement case, has concluded.
The hearing, which had been pending since Tuesday, was completed on Friday before a joint bench of Justices Nahakul Subedi and Balkrishna Dhakal at the Supreme Court. A final verdict is now awaited following the conclusion of arguments.
On Friday, lawyers representing the complainants, who had filed a case against Lamichhane and his business associate and former DIG Chhabilal Joshi of Gorkha Media Network, presented their arguments.
Senior advocates Surendra Bhandari and Dinesh Tripathi, along with advocate Ramchandra RC Gautam, argued on behalf of the petitioners.
On the defense side, senior advocates Sushil Kumar Pant, Raman Kumar Shrestha, and Satish Krishna Kharel led the rebuttal arguments on behalf of Lamichhane and Joshi.
The habeas corpus petition was filed in the Supreme Court by Nikita Poudel after Lamichhane was sent to judicial custody. Meanwhile, a related appeal by Joshi, challenging a remand order from the Butwal bench of the High Court Dang, was also heard together with Lamichhane’s petition.
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