RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, now in a prison following his conviction in a fodder scam case last month, today appeared before a special CBI court through video-conferencing in connection with another fodder case.
Lalu registered his appearance through video-conferencing from the jail before the court of Sitaram Prasad in connection with fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 97 lakh from Deogarh Treasury when he was at the head of RJD government during undivided Bihar in the 1990s.
Besides Lalu, former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra, former JD(U) MP Jagdish Sharma and 27 others are accused in the case.
Mishra is now on provisional bail on medical ground.
Lalu is also facing charges in three other cases pertaining to fodder scam cases in different treasuries in the Rs 950 crore AHD scam, known as fodder scam.
He is now lodged in the Birsa Munda Central Jail here after being found guilty by the CBI court of Pravas Kumar Singh on September 30 in a case of fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37.7 crore from the Chaibasa treasury.
The court had on October 3 sentenced him to jail for five years and fined Rs 25 lakh. In all, 45 were convicted and sentenced to varied prison terms in the case.
