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Lalu receives 14 year jail term in fourth fodder scam

Team SoOLEGAL 26 Mar 2018 2:25pm

Lalu receives 14 year jail term in fourth fodder scam

Ranchi: Former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad who is already in jail in connection with fodder scam(s) where he has been pronounced guilty alreadywas  sentenced in fourth fodder scam to 14 years in jail and fined Rs 60 lakh by a special CBI court .The case pertains to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from Dumka treasury in the early 1990s.Besides Lalu,court also pronounced the quantum of sentence for 18 other convicts in the case.

CBI judge Shiv Pal Singh awarded two separate sentences of seven years each to Prasad under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Acts, and both the sentences will have to be served consecutively.

Lalu Prasad has been sentenced to seven years in prison under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged), 477 (fraudulent cancellation, destruction of will or valuable security) and 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), and penalised Rs 30 lakh.

For default or non-payment of fine, the convict would have to spend one more year in prison for each of the two sets of sections.

Former regional director of animal husbandry department O P Diwarkar was given the same sentence as Lalu.Nine other Animal Husbandry department officials and former IAS officer Phoolchand Singh were sentenced to seven years in prison and fined Rs 30 lakh each for their involvement in the case.Any failure to pay the fine would entail an additional 18-month prison term for each of them.

Seven fodder suppliers were given three-and-a-half years of prison terms and Rs 15 lakh penalty each.

The court had on March 19 held the 69-year-old RJD chief guilty along with 18 others in connection with the Dumka treasury case.Former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra, however, was acquitted in the case, along with 12 other accused.

Prasad has been serving prison term in Birsa Munda Jail in Ranchi since December 23 last year after being convicted in the second fodder scam case pertaining to illegal withdrawal of money from Deogarh treasury.

In the first case, dating back to 2013, the RJD supremo was convicted for illegal withdrawal of Rs 37.7 crore from Chaibasa treasury. He got five years' prison term in the case following which he was disqualified from the Lok Sabha.But after three months he was granted bail by the Supreme Court.

In another Chaibasa case pertaining to withdrawal of Rs 37.62 crore, Prasad got five years' prison term on January 24 this year.

Their is another case, the fifth one relating to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 139 crore from Doranda treasury in Ranchi is still pending with the court.

Prasad is currently undergoing treatment at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi, where he was admitted last week after he complained of chest pain and discomfort in jail.




Tagged: Fodder scam   Lalu Prasad   CBI  
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