Leader of Netra Bikram Chand led CPN Nara Bahadur Karki has been released on bail.
The Kathmandu District Court has released Karki, who is also a film producer, on bail on Monday.
A joint team of the Metropolitan Police Crime Division and Kathmandu Police had arrested Karki from Baluwatar last Monday.
Karki produced the film Maalika featuring actress Rekha Thapa. He is also known as a motivational speaker.
He had posted on on the social media that the party will take revenge for the murder of Sarlahi incharge Kumar Paudel after Paudel was killed.