RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to spend Holi in custody; Jharkhand HC adjourns matter to April 1

By PTI

RANCHI: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav must spend ‘Holi’ in custody because the Jharkhand High Court on Friday adjourned his petition for suspension of sentence in a fodder rip-off case to April 1.

The HC referred to as for the decrease court docket data within the case on fraudulent withdrawals from Doranda treasury within the fodder rip-off involving Prasad, a former union minister and former Bihar chief minister.

Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh adjourned the listening to within the petition to April 1.

Prasad’s petition in search of bail within the case will now be heard after receipt of the decrease court docket data from the particular CBI court docket, which had convicted Prasad and sentenced him to 5 years in custody and slapped a superb of Rs 60 lakh on him on February 15.

The rip-off associated to withdrawal of Rs 139.35 crore from the Doranda treasury in 1995-96 when he was the chief minister of the erstwhile undivided Bihar.

He was sentenced on February 21.

The RJD chief, who was on bail, had surrendered earlier than the CBI court docket and is in custody since February 15.

He had moved Jharkhand High Court on February 24 difficult his conviction and sentence by the court docket right here.

He is now in Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences right here for the monitoring of his medical situation.

The fodder rip-off is pegged at Rs 950 crore.

The cash was withdrawn from varied treasuries by faux challans and payments by the animal husbandary division.

Prasad, who was the chief minister on the time, additionally held the portfolio of the finance division and had allegedly acquired large kickbacks.