Lalu sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment in Fodder Scam case

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Ranchi : In a massive setback to RJD chief and former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad, 69, a Special CBI court at Ranchi on March 24, 2018, sentenced him to 7 years’ imprisonment in a Fodder Scam case involving fraudulent drawal of Rs 3.13 crore from Dumka Treasury in Jharkhand during early 1990s. The court had convicted Lalu and 18 others in the case on March 19, 2018.

This is the fourth Fodder Scam case in which Lalu has been convicted. Lalu was the chief minister of undivided Bihar from March 1990 to July 25, 1997.

Lalu was first convicted on September 30, 2013, in the Fodder Scam bearing Number RC 20A/96 case of Chaibasa involving fraudulent drawl of Rs 37.7 crore in the 1990s. He was sentenced to five years prison term in the case following which he was disqualified from the Lok Sabha and barred from contesting elections for six years after completion of jail term.

In the second case bearing Number RC 64A/ 96 involving fraudulent drawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from Deoghar Treasury in Jharkhand in the 1990s, Lalu was convicted and sentenced to three-and-a-half year imprisonment on December 23, 2017. In another Chaibasa case, RC 68A/96, involving fraudulent drawal of Rs 37.62 crore Lalu was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on January 24 this year.

Lalu is lodged in Birsa Munda jail, Ranchi, since December 23, 2017, since his conviction in the second fodder scam case on that day.