Kathmandu. The Supreme Court (SC) has scheduled a writ petition against the withdrawal of the charge sheet filed against Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) President Rabi Lamichhane on the charge sheet of cooperative fraud, organized crime and money laundering.

A division bench of Justices Nahakul Subedi and Abdul Aziz Musalman has been

assigned to hear the writ petition.

Earlier, Attorney General Sabita Bhandari had directed the District Government Attorney’s Office to amend the cases related to corporate crime and money laundering against Lamichhane.

In a seven-page long ‘comment and order’ endorsed by Bhandari on January 13, the District Government Attorney Office had directed the District Government Attorney Offices to file cases against Lamichhane only for cooperative fraud and to drop two other serious cases.

Senior advocates Dinesh Tripathi, Ayush Badal and Yubaraj Poudel had filed a writ petition challenging the apex court’s decision.