Via PTI
RANCHI: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav should spend ‘Holi’ in custody because the Jharkhand Top Courtroom on Friday adjourned his petition for suspension of sentence in a fodder rip-off case to April 1.
The HC known as for the decrease court docket information within the case on fraudulent withdrawals from Doranda treasury within the fodder rip-off involving Prasad, a former union minister and previous Bihar leader minister.
Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh adjourned the listening to within the petition to April 1.
Prasad’s petition searching for bail within the case will now be heard after receipt of the decrease court docket information from the particular CBI court docket, which had convicted Prasad and sentenced him to 5 years in custody and slapped a tremendous of Rs 60 lakh on him on February 15.
The rip-off associated with withdrawal of Rs 139.35 crore from the Doranda treasury in 1995-96 when he was once the manager minister of the erstwhile undivided Bihar.
He was once sentenced on February 21.
The RJD chief, who was once on bail, had surrendered prior to the CBI court docket and is in custody since February 15.
He had moved Jharkhand Top Courtroom on February 24 difficult his conviction and sentence through the court docket right here.
He’s now in Rajendra Institute of Clinical Sciences right here for the tracking of his scientific situation.
The fodder rip-off is pegged at Rs 950 crore.
The cash was once withdrawn from quite a lot of treasuries thru faux challans and expenses through the animal husbandary division.
Prasad, who was once the manager minister on the time, additionally held the portfolio of the finance division and had allegedly gained large kickbacks.