Ranchi: The special CBI court here on Monday sentenced former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to five years’ imprisonment in the final and fifth fodder scam case. The special court also slapped a Rs 60 Lakh fine in connection with the case.
The former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has already been convicted in four cases related to the multi-crore scam.
Apart from Prasad, former MP Jagdish Sharma, the then Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Dhruv Bhagat, Animal Husbandry Secretary Beck Julius and Animal Husbandry Assistant Director Dr K M Prasad are the main accused.
Yadav was arrested in 2013 first and later granted bail. After his arrest in 2017 in connection to other fodder scam cases, he walked out of jail in April 2021, after procuring bail.
The fodder scam came to light in January 1996 after a raid at the Animal Husbandry Department. The CBI named Prasad as an accused in June 1997.
The agency framed charges against Prasad and former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra. In September 2013, the trial court convicted Prasad, Mishra and 45 others in one of the cases related to the fodder scam and Prasad was imprisoned in Ranchi jail.
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