Ranchi: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav was today convicted by a special CBI court in Ranchi in another fodder scam case. This is the third fodder scam case in which Yadav has been convicted. Lalu has already been convicted in two other cases related to the fodder scams that took place in Bihar in the 90s.
CBI judge SS Prasad also found another former chief minister Jagannath Mishra guility in the case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37.62 crore from the Chaibasa treasury in the 1990s.
The court has sentence Yadav to five year jail and has imposed Rs 10 lakh as fine. Meanwhile, RJD said that the party will pursue the case in higher courts. Lalu Yadav was first convicted in a fodder scam case in 2013 and was awarded five years’ imprisonment while the conviction in the second case came in December last year.
The trial in three cases gained momentum in May this year after the Supreme Court directed that the trial be completed in nine months.
