By Karuna Thapa
Kathmandu, February 21
In a fodder scam case, former Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was sentenced to five years in prison.
A special CBI court in Jharkhand has also decided to penalize Yadav Rs 6 million in the fifth
instance of fodder scam, according to BBC Hindi.
The last issue was a Jharkhand-related feed and animal husbandry scam. Yadav was found
guilty in the case on February 15.
Yadav was sentenced to eight months in prison and 31 months in a mental institution in 2017 after being convicted in previous incidents of fodder and animal husbandry fraud. He was granted bail and released.
Between 1990 and 1994, the devghar treasury was emptied of 89.27 million Indian rupees in the pretense of giving animal fodder. Lalu was the Chief Minister of Bihar at the time. After that, speculations about the case began to circulate in the early months of 1996.
In total, 38 people were charged in the case. On October 27, 1997, the CBI filed a case against all of them.
