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Added on : 2018-03-19 18:03:14

On Monday, a Ranchi court pronounced Lalu Prasad Yadav guilty in the another fodder scam (Dumka Treasury). Meanwhile, former Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra was pronounced not guilty in Fodder scam (Dumka Treasury) case by Ranchi court. The RJD supremo, who has been admitted to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) after falling sick in the jail on Saturday, would not be present in the court. Prasad and others are accused of fraudulently withdrawing Rs. 3.13 crore from Dumka treasury between December 1995 and January 1996, when the former was the chief minister of undivided Bihar. Prasad is already serving a jail term of 13.5 years in three fodder cases and lodged in the Birsa Munda jail in Ranchi.
The case is related to alleged withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury when Prasad was the chief minister of Bihar. On Friday, the Special CBI court had made three former bureaucrats of Bihar accountant-general's office accused in the fodder scam. The court issued summons to former Bihar Accountant General P.K. Mukhopadhyay, former Deputy Accountant General B.N. Jha and former Senior Director General of Accounts Office Pramod Kumar on the request of Prasad, who had sought a trial against the three former bureaucrats.

On Monday, a Ranchi court pronounced Lalu Prasad Yadav guilty in the another fodder scam (Dumka Treasury). Meanwhile, former Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra was pronounced not guilty in Fodder scam (Dumka Treasury) case by Ranchi court. The RJD supremo, who has been admitted to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) after falling sick in the jail on Saturday, would not be present in the court. Prasad and others are accused of fraudulently withdrawing Rs. 3.13 crore from Dumka treasury between December 1995 and January 1996, when the former was the chief minister of undivided Bihar. Prasad is already serving a jail term of 13.5 years in three fodder cases and lodged in the Birsa Munda jail in Ranchi.
The case is related to alleged withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury when Prasad was the chief minister of Bihar. On Friday, the Special CBI court had made three former bureaucrats of Bihar accountant-general's office accused in the fodder scam. The court issued summons to former Bihar Accountant General P.K. Mukhopadhyay, former Deputy Accountant General B.N. Jha and former Senior Director General of Accounts Office Pramod Kumar on the request of Prasad, who had sought a trial against the three former bureaucrats.

Editor & Publisher : Dr Dhimant Purohit

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