BUTWAL: The detention hearing of Rabi Lamichhane, the president of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), is underway at the Rupandehi District Court.

Lamichhane, who was arrested in the Supreme cooperative fraud case in Butwal was released on bail yesterday, but the detention hearing scheduled for today is continuing.

Yesterday, the bench of Rupandehi District Court Judge Pralhad Kumar Yogi handed his wife Nikita Poudel and legal practitioners on the condition that he appears on Thursday.