The District Court of Rupandehi has withdrawn the organized crime and money laundering charges filed against Rashtriya Swatantra Party chairman Ravi Lamichhane and other accused individuals. The bench, presided over by Judge Rameshkant Adhikari, ordered the withdrawal of these two charges while maintaining the cooperative fraud case. Previously, the district courts of Kaski and Parsa had also dismissed all charges except those related to cooperative fraud.
The Rupandehi District Court issued the order to withdraw the organized crime and money laundering charges against all the accused, including Ravi Lamichhane. Judge Adhikari’s panel preserved the cooperative fraud case as is but directed the withdrawal of the additional two charges.
Following this court decision, it appears that a settlement path may open in the case after Ravi Lamichhane and the other accused return the money owed to the victims. Alongside Ravi, GB Rai, Kumar Ramtel, and others involved in the matter had the other charges, except for cooperative fraud, withdrawn. Previously, the Kaski and Parsa district courts had also withdrawn charges unrelated to cooperative fraud against the accused.
