This was the 44th of the 53 fodder cases, registered soon after the total Rs 950 crore scam was unearthed in the early 1990s, to have ended in convictions.
Delivering the verdict, the court of Ganpati Tiwari acquitted sixteen others in the RC31A/96 case.
The court sentenced 29 persons between one and three years while posting for May 7 to pronounce the quantum of sentence on the rest convicts.
Treasury officials and fodder suppliers were among the convicted. PTI COR PVR
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