Former Bihar CM Lalu Yadav convicted in Fodder Scam

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Ranchi: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has been convicted by a CBI special court here on Saturday in connection with a fodder scam case. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on January 3, 2018.

However, former Bihar Chief minister Jagannath Mishra has been acquitted today.

The CBI judge Shivpal Singh pronounced the verdict today in a case related to embezzling of more than Rs 89 lakh from the Deoghar Treasury between 1991 and 1994, when Lalu Yadav was the Chief Minister of Bihar.

Lalu Yadav was found guilty in 2013 in another fodder scam case and was given a five-year prison term that cost him his Lok Sabha seat and his disqualification from contesting elections.

He had got a bail by the Supreme Court in December that year in the case.

“The BJP has been conspiring against me and harassing me for the last 20 years just to weaken me. But I have full faith in the judiciary and a lot of people have got justice, be it Kanimozhi, A Raja and others. We will emerge stronger in coming days,” he said hours before the court delivered its verdict.

A charge sheet was filed against 38 persons on October 27, 1997, in the case, a CBI official said. Eleven of them died during the course of the trial, and three turned CBI approvers while two other accused confessed to their crime and were convicted in 2006-07, he added.

Meanwhile, the RJD chief has been sent to the city based Birsa Munda Central Jail.

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