KATHMANDU, Aug. 4 -- Patan High Court has ordered the release of medical entrepreneur Durga Prasai on bail in two different cases - banking offense and inciting violence.

Diwakar Puri, a government attorney at the court, told Republica that a division bench of high court judges Sudarshan Dev Bhatta and Munendra Prasad Awasthi issued the order on Monday, directing authorities that Prasai be released upon posting a bail amount of Rs 2.5 million in the banking offense case.

Similarly, a division bench of judges comprising Tanka Prasad Gurung and Dilli Ratna Shrestha ordered the release of Prasai on bail of Rs 300,000 in the violent pro-monarchy protest he led in Kathmandu on March 28.

"He has been granted bail of Rs 300,000 in the Tinkun...