MEDININAGAR: On Wednesday, a court in Jharkhand's Palamu district punished the former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was Rs 6,000 for breaking the model code of conduct during the state's assembly elections in 2009.

Lalu confessed and recognised that he had broken the model code of conduct when he appeared in the court of judge Satish Kumar Munda. Judge Munda ordered a Rs 6,000 fine, which was deposited on Prasad's behalf. After that, the situation was resolved.

Lalu's chopper landed in a rice field in Garhwa while campaigning for the 2009 assembly elections, purportedly due to the pilot's mistake instead of the helipad in Medininagar.

A case under IPC sections 188 (disobedience to a duly promulgated public servant's order), 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way), 290 (punishment for public nuisance), 291 (whoever repeats or continues a public nuisance), and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention), as well as section 127 of the Representation of People's Act, which deals with disturbances at election meetings.

Prabhat Kumar, Prasad's lawyer, said the case was later moved to Ranchi and then to Medininagar.

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