Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, who is in jail, on Friday got bail from the Jharkhand High Court in a case of fraudulent withdrawal of ₹139.35 crore from the Doranda treasury of Jharkhand. The court, while granting the bail, imposed a fine of ₹10 lakh on him.
“The court accepted our petition for suspension of the sentence in the case and granted bail to Mr. Prasad as he has already served over half of the five–year sentence in the case. Though the CBI opposed the bail saying he has not served half the sentence yet, the court granted bail,” said Prabhat Kumar, Mr. Prasad’s lawyer, in Ranchi while, adding, “The court has, though, imposed ₹10 lakh fine on Mr. Prasad”.
The Doranda treasury case is the fifth case related to the ₹950–crore fodder scam against the former Bihar Chief Minister, who has been in jail for the last 42 months. The fodder scam is a set of 55 cases which were later clubbed into fewer cases relating to alleged illegal withdrawal of money from districts treasuries in undivided Bihar, mostly between 1992–1995.
