Lalu Prasad was convicted in the first fodder scam case in 2013 and awarded five years in jail. File/PTIRanchi: A special CBI court here on Monday convicted former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fourth fodder scam case.
The court, however, acquitted Jagannath Mishra, another former chief minister of the state in the case.
The hearing in the fodder case, relating to fraudulent withdrawals of Rs 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury between December 1995 and January 1996, was completed on March 5.
Besides Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra, there were 30 accused in the case.
Lalu Prasad was convicted in the first fodder scam case in 2013 and awarded five years in jail.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal chief was subsequently convicted by a special CBI court in the second case on December 23, 2017, and awarded three-and-half years' imprisonment on January 6.
He was convicted in the third case on January 24, related to fraudulent withdrawals from the Chaibasa treasury, and awarded a five-year jail term.
He now faces another case in Patna.
The multi-million-rupee fodder scam surfaced in the 1990s when Lalu Prasad was chief minister of undivided Bihar. The probe was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation on Patna High Court's order.
The bulk of the cases were transferred to Ranchi after Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar in 2000.
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