The chief of Rashtriya Kanata Dal, Laalu Prasad Yadav has been got chastised by CBI Court to experience imprisonment for 5 years and charged for Rs.60 Lakh as fine in the 5th fodder scam case. While three-year jail terms were ordained for 46 offenders, 24 were discharged out of 99 accused in the case.
Actually, 170 were accused, and among them, 55 have lost their lives, 7 have become government spectators, 2 have agreed the charges imposed against them and 6 are escaped.
Laalu Prasad has found related to this case on 15th of this month. The big shots of Rashtriya Janata Dal was found liable of unlawful withdrawals of Rs 139.35 crore from Doranda treasury by a special CBI Court located in Ranchi. Before this, Laalu had identified as a culprit in 4 fodder scam cases.
At first, the scam was identified when the Deputy Commissioner of Chaibasa, Amit Khare conducted a raid at the Animal Husbandry Department in January 1996. In the following year June, Laalu was found as a culprit of the case for the first time in the chargesheet which was filed by the Central Bureau if Investigation. So, he immediately resigned as the chief minister of Bihar to escape the pressure from his rivalries, and set his wife Rabri Devi in his position of CM and silently maintained the political affairs of the state in July 1997.
However, the case was shifted to the Jharkhand High court in October 2001, owing to the formation of new state Jharkhand, after the bifurcation of Bihar. Recently, experimentations in the fodder scam case have been begun by the special CBI court.
Laalu Prasad’s first conviction came to light in September 2013 in the Chaibasa treasury case in connection with deceitful withdrawal of Rs 37.70 crore. In March 2018, Laalu felt guilty under complot and corruption charges in the case related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.76 crore from Dumka treasury from December 1995 – January 1996. It had punished him 14 years in prison and imposed him a fine of Rs 60 lakh.