Guwahati: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Court in Ranchi convicted former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav of fraudulently withdrawing 139.35 crore from the Doranda treasury on Tuesday.
According to national media reports, he arrived in Ranchi on Sunday in order to be physically present at the hearing. The CBI court convicted the RJD leader guilty while passing a verdict in the fodder fraud case.
Yadav had been convicted in four of the five cases involving fodder fraud before being charged in the fifth and final case.
The RJD Supremo had already been granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court in April of last year in the case of illegal withdrawal from Dumka treasury, which was one of the charges relating to the fodder scam for which he had been convicted.
He was granted bail in the Deoghar Treasury Scam case in February 2020, and in the Chaibasa Treasury Scam case in October of that year.
The issue stems from Animal Husbandry Department workers fraudulently withdrawing 3.5 crore from the Dumka treasury between 1991 and 1996 when Yadav was the state’s chief minister.
The Fodder Scam was a corruption case in Bihar that involved the embezzlement of 940 crore from the state’s treasury. In the case, former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra and then-CM Lalu Yadav were both accused and detained.
Lalu Prasad Yadav’s tenure as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh came to an end as a result of the case. In December 2017, a special CBI court found Yadav guilty, but Jagannath Mishra was found not guilty.