PATNA: With the special CBI court at Ranchi scheduled to pronounce the sentence on Lalu Prasad and 39 others on February 21 in the fifth fodder scam case related to Doranda treasury, the RJD chief has weathered the odds for the last 26 years since the scam burst in 1996 and his name also figured as a conspirator, as he was the CM and finance minister of undivided Bihar.
He has been convicted in the four fodder scam cases in Jharkhand. The prison term added up to 14.5 years, of which he has served 3.5 years and was on bail.