Court refuses to free ex-poll commissioner, Bhatbhateni owner in Lalita Niwas scam

But releases Secretary Krishna Bahadur Raut saying there is no reason to keep him in judicial detention.

The Supreme Court on Friday scrapped the habeas corpus writ petitions demanding release of those accused in the Lalita Niwas land grab scam, thus continuing the judicial custody of everyone except Krishna Bahadur Raut, the secretary at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.