A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court in Ranchi will pronounce its verdict on Saturday Dec 23,2017 in Fodder Scam case in which former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad is an accused.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal(RJD) supremo, Prasad on Friday Dec 22,2017 expressed hope that he would get a clean chit in the Fodder Scam case like other accused in the 2G and Adarsh scams.
"We trust and respect the judiciary. We will not let BJP's conspiracies work," Prasad said.
He said that the BJP Governments since the time of A B Vajpayee have been harassing him and his family by misusing the CBI for the past 25 years.
Meanwhile, Prasad has reached Ranchi along with his son Tejashwi Yadav to hear the verdict.
The Fodder Scase relates to the alleged fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 95 lakh from the Deoghar treasury.
Overall, more than Rs 900 crore was reportedly siphoned off from the Chaibasa treasury for two decades.
Altogether, there were 34 accused in the case, out of which 11 died during the course of the trial and one turned CBI approver and admitted the crime.
Former Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra has already been convicted and sentenced to five years of imprisonment in one of the 5 Fodder Scam Cases.
The case has seen many twists and turns, so let’s look at all the intricacies of it through numbers.
64: The fodder scam is comprised of 64 individual cases and of these, 53 have been tried in Ranchi after the Supreme Court transferred the cases to Jharkhand in October 2001.
5: Lalu Prasad Yadav has been named in five of the fodder scam cases.
Rs 89 Lakh: This is the quantum of the alleged scam in Deoghar treasury, in which Lalu Yadav is an accused. Lalu is awaiting a verdict by a special court in this particular case on Saturday. The case is about fraudulent withdrawals of Rs 89 lakh from the Deoghar treasury between 1991 and 1993.
The money was withdrawn by officials from the Bihar animal husbandry department through forged vouchers on the pretext of purchasing fodder and other stuff for livestock.
Rs 900 crore: This is the total estimate of the loss that the fodder scam caused to the exchequer. About Rs 900 crore was withdrawn fraudulently by the animal husbandry department from various districts when Yadav was the Chief Minister of Bihar for two decades. In early raids in January 1996, it was revealed that huge funds were paid to non-existent companies for supplying fodder to the animal husbandry department.
500: This is the number of people who have been convicted and awarded punishments by various courts. One of them is Lalu Yadav. He was convicted in one of the cases of fodder scam – the Chaibasa treasury case — by a CBI court on October 3, 2013 and sentenced to five years in prison. Following this, he lost membership of the Lok Sabha. His appeal against the verdict is pending in the Supreme Court
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