KATHMANDU: Anjila Koirala, wife of Rishikesh Pokharel, chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee in the House of Representatives, has been granted a bail of Rs 1 million in the Uma gauri cooperative fraud case.

The District Court, Morang, has ordered that Anjila be granted a bail of Rs 1 million for the trial.

According to Hem Bahadur Budhathoki, a bench of Judge Uddhav Prasad Bhattarai has ordered Koirala to be granted a bail of Rs 1 million for the trial. Budhathoki informed that the court has ordered her release on bail, stating that there is no reason to keep Anjila in custody.

The custody hearing against Pokharel’s wife Anjila Koirala in the cooperative fraud case lasted for more than an hour and a half. Koirala appeared in court during office hours on Wednesday.

In the bench of Judge Uddhav Kumar Bhattarai of the Morang District Court, the judge asked the government attorney to clarify some of the issues mentioned in the charge sheet.

The charge sheet claims that Rs 222.827 thousand 700 have been embezzled in a way that is not digestible. Her legal practitioners had claimed that there is no evidence linked her to the alleged embezzlement in the audit report of Bhagirath Khanal and Associates, and there was no allegation against Anjila anywhere in the complaint filed by 20 people, and it was not even mentioned in the documents filed by 19 people.

11 lawyers, including nine senior advocates, have argued on behalf of Anjila. A case has been filed against 26 people, including Shambhu Rauniyar, the president of Uma gauri Agricultural Cooperative Society, Anjila, and Santalal Khawas, the ward president of Rangeli 2.