Kathmandu, May 16 -- Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Senior Vice-chairman Rabindra Mishra was freed on Friday following a Supreme Court order.

A joint bench of justices Kumar Chudal and Til Prasad Shrestha issued the order on Friday.

The court directed Mishra's release under the surety of his legal representative, with a provision to summon him again if further evidence is required or if the case proceeds to trial.

Mishra's wife, Sarika Karki, had filed a habeas corpus petition at the apex court on May 13, claiming that police had unlawfully detained her husband.

She moved the top court after the Kathmandu District Court kept on extending Mishra's remand for over one-and-a-half months.

On May 14, a single bench of Justice Sunil Kuma...