In the Fodder Scam case, a special CBI Court sentenced Rashtriya Janata Dal Leader Lalu Prasad Yadav to 14 years in prison. The Court announced the sentencing after Mr. Yadav was convicted in the fourth Fodder Scam case.
Lalu will have to serve two consecutive seven year terms in prison for the Dumka Treasury case. Under various sections of the Indian Penal Code the former Bihar chief minister was slapped with a Rs. 60 lakh fine.
But Mr. Yadav’s lawyer are not willing to give up and told the media they will appeal in a Higher Court against this judgement. This verdict is a big blow to Lalu Prasad Yadav’s political career.
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Lalu was taken to the Court from the hospital where he was admitted after falling sick in prison. The Fodder Scam relates to embezzlement of Government funds in Bihar under the guise of cattle fodder. This multi million rupee scam was unearthed in the 1990s when Prasad was Chief Minister of undivided Bihar.
The fourth case involved Rs. 3.31 crores embezzled from the Dumka treasury from December 1995 to January 1996. Lalu Prasad has been convicted in all the Fodder Scam Cases so far.
The first one’s hearing in 2013 convicted Mr. Yadav and sentenced him to five years. The CBI Court convicted Yadav in the second case as well on the 23rd of December 2017. In the second case the RJD Chief was sentenced to three and a half years in jail. In January this year, he was convicted in the third case and sentenced to five years imprisonment. There are two more cases against the former chief minister, one in Ranchi and the other in Patna.
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