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  • Jharkhand High Court defers hearing into Lalu Prasad Yadav’s petition in a fodder scam case

    By PTI

    RANCHI: Jharkhand High Court on Friday deferred the hearing into a petition filed by incarcerated RJD supremo Lalu Prasad challenging his conviction in a fodder scam case.

    73-year-old Prasad is in custody following his conviction and sentence by a CBI court in February in a fodder scam case involving embezzlement of over Rs 139 crore from Doranda treasury.

    RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav was on Monday sentenced to five years in prison and slapped a fine of Rs 60 lakh by a special CBI court in Ranchi in connection with the fifth fodder scam case involving embezzlement of over Rs 139 crore by Doranda treasury.

    Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh was informed by CBI, which is investigating the scam that the earlier order of the court to file a counter affidavit in the matter could not be complied with by the agency and pleaded for more time.

    The case will now be heard on April 22.

    Prasad’s counsel Kapil Sibbal told the court that his client has already served more than half of the sentence of five years in prison in the case and deserves to be released from custody.

    Prasad was convicted by the CBI Court here on February 15.

    On February 21 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and fined Rs 60 lakh in the fodder scam case.

    Prasad had held the finance portfolio of undivided Bihar, of which he was the chief minister, during the period of the scam.

    He had allegedly received heavy kickbacks through the animal husbandary department.

    Fake challans and bills were raised which were cleared by the finance department and money was released through the treasury.

    The scam in the Doranda treasury was pegged at Rs 139.35 crores during 1995-96.

  • Fodder scam case: CBI court sentences RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav to five years in prison

    By PTI

    RANCHI: A special CBI court on Monday sentenced RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav to five years in prison and slapped a fine of Rs 60 lakh on him in connection with the Rs 139 crore Doranda treasury embezzlement case of the fodder scam.

    The court pronounced the sentence after virtually hearing arguments on the quantum of sentence.

    After his conviction in the case on February 15, the ailing 73-year old former Bihar chief minister was lodged in the Birsa Munda Central Jail and then shifted to state-run Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi.

  • RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav appears before Patna CBI Court in fodder scam case

    By ANI

    PATNA: Former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav appeared before Patna Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Tuesday in connection with the fodder scam.

    Earlier in April this year, the Jharkhand High Court granted bail to the RJD Supremo in the case of fraudulent withdrawal from Dumka Treasury, one of the cases related to the fodder scam for which he was convicted.

    The Court also imposed the condition to deposit two sureties of Rs 1 lakh each and a fine of Rs 10 lakh.

    He had already been granted bail in the Chaibasa Treasury Scam case in October 2020, and in the Deoghar Treasury Scam case in February 2020.

    The trial in the Doranda Treasury Ranchi case is still going on.

    The case pertains to the fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.5 crore from the Dumka treasury by Animal Husbandry Department officials between 1991 and 1996 when Yadav served as the State’s Chief Minister.