Lalu <\/a>and seven others had been convicted in the Deoghar Treasury case for fraudulent withdrawal of over Rs 89 lakh from the said treasury between 1991 and 1994. Besides the 3.5 years jail terms, each of these convicts had also been slapped with a fine of Rs 5 lakh. The first case linked with the fodder scam in which Lalu was found guilty back in 2013 was also related to fraudulent withdrawals from the Chaibasa treasury. That case had cost Lalu his seat in the Lok Sabha and he was sentenced to five years in jail although he managed to get bail from the Supreme Court after spending a little over two months in prison.<\/p>\nLalu is currently serving a jail term at Ranchi\u2019s Birsa Munda jail after being convicted in the Deoghar Treasury case. He had declined the special CBI court\u2019s offer of lodging him in an open jail \u2013 a system where convicts are allotted independent cottages instead of being locked up in cells within prison premises and have other benefits like relaxed hours for meeting well-wishers, etc.<\/p>\n
Two other cases related to the Rs 970 crore fodder scam \u2013 those linked to fraudulent withdrawals from the Dumka and Doranda Treasuries \u2013 are also in various stages on trial.<\/p>\n
Jagannath Mishra who had served as Bihar chief minister for three terms \u2013 the last being in 1989-90 before Lalu assumed the office \u2013 was convicted in the first Chaibasa Treasury scam along with Lalu but was acquitted in the Deoghar Treasury case. The octogenarian leader, a former Congress heavyweight, had lost his wife Veena on January 22, just two days before the latest guilty verdict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Latest case involves siphoning of Rs. 33.67 crore from Chaibasa treasury against allocation of Rs. 7.10 lakh in 1992-93, Lalu was named main conspirator by CBI Weeks after he was sentenced to serve three and a half years in jail in a case linked to the fodder scam, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0(January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[40,12357,987,12919],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Untitled4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}