Former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has been convicted by a special CBI court in Jharkhand in the fifth case of the country’s much-discussed fodder scam of Rs 950 crore. The special CBI court in Ranchi has convicted Lalu Yadav in the case of illegal withdrawal of Rs 139.5 crore from Doranda Treasury. This is the fifth case related to the fodder scam in which the court has found him guilty.
The Special Court of CBI will announce the sentence on February 21 and Lalu Yadav will have to be present in the court on that day. Lalu Yadav has already been convicted in four other fodder scam cases. Earlier, in the four fodder scam cases, the court has sentenced Lalu Prasad Yadav to a total of 27 and a half years, while he also had to pay a fine of one crore rupees.
In this fifth case of the famous fodder scam, an FIR was lodged in the year 1996 at Doranda police station in Ranchi. Later the CBI took over the case. In case no. RC-47A/96, initially there were a total of 170 accused. Of these, 55 accused have died, while seven accused have been made government witnesses by the CBI. The two accused accepted their guilt even before the court’s verdict came. Six accused are absconding till date.
ED raids on 10 big places related to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, action continues at sister Haseena Parkar’s house
During the hearing of this case, a total of 575 people were testified on behalf of the prosecution in the Special Court of CBI, while 25 witnesses were presented on behalf of the defense. During the hearing of this case, a total of 15 trunk documents were produced by the CBI in the court. In this scam in the Animal Husbandry Department, crores of rupees were illegally withdrawn in the name of transporting animals like bull, buffalo, cow, heifer, goat and sheep and fodder for them in a fake manner.
The vehicles through which the details of transporting animals and their fodder were recorded in the government documents were found to be fake during investigation. The number of vehicles from which the animals were told to be transported, the numbers of those vehicles turned out to be scooters, mopeds, motorcycles.
The CBI had registered 64 cases in this case and Lalu Yadav’s name was in six of these cases. These fodder scam cases are from 1990 to 1996. The CAG (Chief Auditor) of Bihar had sent this information to the state government from time to time but the government did not pay heed. The CBI produced documents in favor of the allegation in the court that Lalu Yadav, who was the chief minister, did not take any action in the matter even though he was aware of the whole matter.
For many years, he himself was also the finance minister of the state, and it was only on his approval that the base amount was withdrawn on the basis of fake bills. The RJD supremo had to go to jail more than half a dozen times due to his conviction in four cases of fodder scam. He has got bail from the High Court in all these cases.
,