{"id":25377,"date":"2018-03-20T11:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=25377"},"modified":"2018-03-20T11:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:53:02","slug":"lalu-prasad-convicted-in-fourth-fodder-scam-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/lalu-prasad-convicted-in-fourth-fodder-scam-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Lalu Prasad convicted in fourth fodder scam case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBI judge Shiv Pal Singh held Lalu guilty in the case RC 38 A\/96 pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from Dumka treasury in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Wheels of law completed a full circle for the fourth time in the fodder scam as former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad was convicted by a special CBI court in<\/p>\n<p>the fourth fodder scam case while another ex-chief minister Jagannath Mishra was acquitted.<\/p>\n<p>CBI judge Shiv Pal Singh held Lalu guilty in the case RC 38 A\/96 pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from Dumka treasury in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The judge will hear arguments on the quantum of sentence from March 21, according to a CBI counsel.<\/p>\n<p>RJD has said that it will challenge the verdict in the high court.Prasad has been in Birsa Munda jail at Ranchi since December 23 last year after being convicted<\/p>\n<p>in the second case pertaining to illegal withdrawal of money from Deogarh treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the RJD supremo was convicted on September 30, 2013 in the RC 20A\/96 case of Chaibasa pertaining to illegal withdrawal of Rs 37.7 crore in the<\/p>\n<p>1990s. He got five years prison term in the case following which he was disqualified from the Lok Sabha and barred from contesting elections for six years after<\/p>\n<p>completion of jail term.<\/p>\n<p>In the second case, Prasad was convicted in the RC64A\/96 in connection with fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from Deoghar Treasury in the 1990s. He<\/p>\n<p>was awarded 3.5 years sentence in the case on December 23 last year.<\/p>\n<p>In another Chaibasa case, RC 68A\/96 pertaining to Rs 37.62 crore Prasad got five years prison term on January 24 this year.The fifth case relating to fraudulent<\/p>\n<p>withdrawal of Rs 139 crore from the Doranda treasury in Ranchi is pending with the court.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBI judge Shiv Pal Singh held Lalu guilty in the case RC 38 A\/96 pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from Dumka treasury in the early 1990s. Wheels of law completed a full circle for the fourth time in the fodder scam as former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad was convicted by a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25379,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25377\/revisions\/25379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}