The Kaski District Court on Friday extended the remand of former deputy inspector general (DIG) Chhabilal Joshi, who is accused of misappropriating cooperative savings fraud, by a week.

Joshi, arrested in connection with the embezzlement of cooperative funds, was brought to Kaski on Sunday evening in connection with the misappropriation of savings from Pokhara-based Suryadarshan Saving and Cooperative Limited immediately after he was arrested from Shankhamul in Kathmandu.

He was produced before the court on Monday and the court remanded him in custody for five days. He was presented before the court today for an extension of his remand.

The Kaski Police said the District Attorney’s Office has already recorded Joshi’s statement.

The parliamentary special panel, formed to investigate crisis-ridden cooperatives, has recommended in its report that the government initiate legal action against Joshi, one of the founders of the Gorkha Media Network, along with the company’s chair GB Rai, then managing director Rabi Lamichhane, and board member Kumar Ramtel.

Joshi, Lamichhane, Rai and Ramtel are accused of collecting millions of rupees from several cooperatives to run the Gorkha Media Network, where they had allegedly embezzled the money.