Lalu Yadav is serving a four-year prison sentence for corruption.
Ranchi:
The bail hearing of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Yadav in a fodder scam case was postponed today until November 27, as the IWC did not present its arguments to the Jharkhand High Court.
Lalu Yadav, who is serving a four-year prison sentence for corruption, has been granted bail in many other cases involving the scam of government funds for livestock feed.
This is the last case and Lalu Yadav expects to be released on bail this time.
At the High Court hearing, his lawyer Kapil Sibal accused the CBI of “deliberately delaying the declaration of bail.”
The “Dumka Treasury Case” involves Rs 3.5 million taken from the Dumka treasury by officials of the Bihar Livestock Department between 1991 and 1996, when Lalu Yadav was the Chief Minister.
Last month, Mr. Yadav was granted bail in connection with the Chaibasa Treasury case, also related to the forage scam. He remains in jail pending the hearing on the Dumka Treasury case.
Rashtriya leader Janata Dal has been in jail since December 2017 after being convicted. He has served most of his jail sentence in Jharkhand at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) hospital.
In his absence, his son Tejashwi Yadav has led the RJD and is the main opposition ministerial candidate in the Bihar elections that end on Saturday.
This is the first time in 40 years that Lalu Yadav has missed a state election campaign.
Last month, Tejashwi Yadav had said that his father would be released on November 9 after the bail hearing and that the current chief minister, Nitish Kumar, would be fired the next day.
“Lalu ji will be released on November 9. He has a bond and will get another on November 9, which is also my birthday. The next day, Nitishji will say goodbye,” he told a rally.
The results of the Bihar elections will be announced on November 10.
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