Dumka fodder scam: CBI court pronounces Lalu ‘Convicted’
Dumka fodder scam: CBI court pronounces Lalu ‘Convicted’
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Patna (Bihar) [India], Mar. 19 (NT): A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ranchi on Monday pronounced judgment in the fourth fodder scam case, involving former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and 30 others.CBI court found Lalu ‘Convicted’ in its verdict.

The RJD supremo, who has been admitted to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) after falling sick in the jail on Saturday, would present in the court.

Prasad and others are accused of deceitfully withdrawing Rs. 3.13 crore from Dumka treasury between December 1995 and January 1996, when Lalu was the chief minister of undivided Bihar.

Prasad is already serving a jail term of 13.5 years in three fodder cases and being served in the Birsa Munda jail in Ranchi.

The case is related to alleged withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury when Prasad was the chief minister of Bihar.

Besides Prasad, former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra and 29 people, including former IAS officers and some officials are also accused in the case.

On Friday, the Special CBI court had accused three former bureaucrats of Bihar accountant-general's office in the fodder scam.

 

 

 

 

 

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