Kathmandu, Aug. 11 -- A district court in Nepal ordered former Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane to remain in judicial custody, rejecting his application for release on cooperative fraud.

The Rupandehi District Court late on Monday evening hearing over the application filed by Lamichhane, also the founder of Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) upheld the judicial custody.

A single bench of Judge Narayan Prasad Sapkota refused to let Lamichhane out, though he had submitted an application for release in connection with the Butwan-based Supreme Saving and Credit Cooperative fraud case.

"Since the amount of money owed to him has not been determined, and the process of examining witnesses and other evidence in the case is s...