Lalu Yadav falls ill in jail, admitted to RIMS hospital
India | March 17, 2018 22:25 ISTThe 69-year-old former Bihar chief minister is serving a prison sentence in a fodder scam case.
The 69-year-old former Bihar chief minister is serving a prison sentence in a fodder scam case.
Besides former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Yadav and Jagannath Mishra, there are 29 accused, including former IAS officers and AHD officials, in the Dumka Treasury case.
Lalu, a former Railway Minister, has also stressed on the need for unity among non-Bharatiya Janata Party leaders ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The case relates to fraudulent withdrawals Rs 13.13 crore from December 1995 to January 1996 from the Dumka treasury.
A special CBI court on Wednesday sentenced Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav to five years imprisonment in the third fodder scam case.
Earlier in the day, Lalu along with another former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra was convicted by a special CBI court in fodder scam case.
A special CBI court in Ranchi today convicted Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and 50 others in the third fodder scam – the Chaibasa Treasury case.
Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav alleged that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is behind Lalu's conviction in fodder scam case.
The case relates to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 139.35 crore from Doranda treasury of Ranchi.
The agency has allegedly detected some funds being transferred by Rahul Yadav to his mother-in-law Rabri Devi, the wife of Lalu Prasad.
Yechury made it clear that his party would not have truck with any “communal and corruption-tainted” party in the next Lok Sabha polls.
The former Bihar chief minister, who is lodged in Ranchi's Bira Munda jail, was earlier this month sentenced to three-and-a-half-years jail in second case of over Rs 900 crore fodder scam linked to illegal withdrawal of money from Deogarh treasury.
Mahto and Yadav, who were reportedly charged with minor offences, were claimed to be serving Prasad as helper and cook.
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, who is lodged in a jail here after his conviction by a CBI court in a fodder scam case, would move the Jharkhand High Court for bail within the next few days
The CBI court judge said that said that “gau palan (cattle rearing) is a good option for the convicts as they have ‘good knowledge of fodder and cattle medicine’”.
Rabri Devi, a former Bihar chief minister, told reporters at the residence of Gangotri Devi that the latter was about four years elder to the RJD chief and that she had not been keeping well for some time.
Lalu’s son and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said that the trial court’s decision will be challenged in the high court.
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