The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav in connection with the Chaibasa treasure case related to the Rs 950 crore forage scam.
The case concerned the withdrawal of Rs 33.67 million from the Chaibasa treasury during 1992-93, when the head of the RJD was the Prime Minister of Bihar.
Lalu Prasad Yadav will not be free despite being granted bail, as he has been sentenced to 14 years in prison in connection with the Dumka embezzlement case. The Dumka case concerns the fraudulent withdrawal of 3.5 million rupees from Dumka’s treasury by officials of the Department of Animal Husbandry between 1991 and 1996, when Yadav was the undivided CM of Bihar.
The RJD leader and former union minister has been convicted in three cases related to the forage scam.
Lalu Prasad Yadav is under treatment at the leading Rajendra Institute for Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Jharkhand, as he has been suffering from type 2 diabetes and hypertension. He is a chronic kidney patient.
Lalu Prasad Yadav has been convicted in six cases in connection with the embezzlement of public funds and various sentences have been handed down in these cases. He has been in prison since 2017. Lalu Prasad Yadav when convicted and sentenced to 3.5 years, 5 years and 14 years in prison in three fodder scam cases
Lalu Prasad Yadav is simultaneously serving these jail terms. The Jharkhand High Court granted him bail in the Deoghar Treasury case in December 2013 in one of the forage scam cases on the grounds that he had served half of the 3.5 years in prison that they had been granted.
It will not be directly associated with the Bihar elections that will take place in three phases from 28 October. Lalu Prasad Yadav was banned from participating in the elections and disqualified from Parliament.
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