The RJD supremo, who has been handed down 14 years imprisonment and slapped with a total fine of Rs 60 lakh, has secured bail in four earlier cases of Rs 950-crore fodder scam
Lalu Prasad, who has already been convicted in four other cases of the fodder scam, is also an accused in the fifth and final case.
The former Bihar chief minister, who has been sentenced to 14 years in jail in four fodder scam cases, is also an accused in the fifth and final case.
Here is a list of all cases for which the septuagenarian RJD supremo had trysts with the law
In the Dumka case of the Bihar fodder scam, Yadav was convicted for withdrawing Rs 3.13 crore from the treasury in the city in Jharkhand, formerly in Bihar.
The former Bihar chief minister has already acquired bail in three cases of over Rs 900 crore fodder scam and was expecting a favorable decision in the Dumka treasury case for release from jail.
The revelation was made at a monsoon session of the Bihar legislature where the Excess Expenditure Appropriation Bill, 2019 was being discussed.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to respond in two weeks on Yadav's plea challenging the January 10 verdict of the Jharkhand High Court rejecting bail to him in these cases.
The fodder scam related to fraudulent withdrawal of government funds from the treasuries of various districts of undivided Bihar in the 1990s when RJD was in power and Yadav the chief minister.
The same court had on January 4 reserved its order on the RJD supremo's bail plea after hearing arguments of his counsel Kapil Sibal and that of the CBI.
The CBI said other convicts in the case relating to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from the Deogarh Treasury were awarded seven years in prison by a special CBI court on January 6 this year.
The high court had on May 11 granted six weeks provisional bail to Prasad and again extended it till August 14.
Reacting to the toughest ever sentence awarded to Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case, the RJD termed the CBI investigation "politically motivated" and the BJP said the law took its own course.
Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh granted provisional bail to Mishra till March 15 after a medical report said he is suffering from cancer.
Lalu's three children--Tej Pratap Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav and Misa Bharti--have made it to the panel.
This is the second fodder scam case in which Mishra was convicted. In 2013, he was convicted in the first case along with Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Tejashwi Yadav claimed the BJP-led NDA was planning to hold elections in Bihar by December this year and this was evident with senior BJP leaders as well as RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat undertaking tours of the state.
CBI judge SS Prasad also found another former chief minister Jagannath Mishra guility in the case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37.62 crore from the Chaibasa treasury in the 1990s.
The Court had on December 23 convicted Lalu Yadav and 15 others in this fodder scam case and acquitted six others including another former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra.
The pronouncement of quantum of punishment for the former Bihar CM was not done today due to the passing away of advocate Vindeshwari Prasad, as reported by ANI
The charges are in connection with the case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 96 lakh during Lalu’s tenure as chief minister of Bihar.
Reaching out to youths with promise of employment and bringing an end to distress migration, Modi said he wants to remind them of the scams that happened in past here.
Special CBI judge Pravas Kumar Singh is likely to pronounce the punishment at 3 PM today through video conferencing. 65-year-old Prasad and other convicts are currently lodged in the Birsa Munda Central Jail.
In January 1996, the Fodder scam surfaces after Deputy Commissioner Amit Khare raids offices of animal husbandry department, seizing documents showing syphoning of funds by non-existent companies in the name of supplying fodder
Lalu has been convicted of corruption, criminal conspiracy and cheating and the sentencing will take place on October 3. The 44 convicts include former Bihar chief minister and Congress leader Jagannath Mishra, six politicians and four Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers.