Ranchi: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday appealed against his sentence in a fodder scam case in the Jharkhand High Court and also sought bail. The Chittaranjan Sinha lawyer of RJD leader said that the court can hear their petitions on January 19.
The Special CBI court of Shiv Pal Singh had sentenced Lalu Yadav to three-and-a-half years in the case of to illegal withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from the Deoghar treasury between 1991 and 1994 in the second of five fodder scam cases against him. That, On September 30, 2013, Lalu Yadv was sentenced to five years for illegally withdrawing Rs 37.70 crore from Chaibasa Treasury.
The RJD Lalu Yadav was on bail in this case when he was convicted for fraudulent withdrawal of government funds from the fraud Deoghar case. Apart from these two cases, he alleged accused in three other cases of fodder scam; the accused had speculated that when he was the Chief Minister of undivided Bihar, the government had suffered a loss of 900 crores.
