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Fodder scam case: Lalu to appear in court Tuesday
Monday February 13, 2012 07:08:28 PM,
IANS
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Ranchi: Two former
Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and Jagannath Mishra will
appear in a CBI court in Jharkhand Tuesday to record statements in
a case related to the multi-million rupee fodder scam in which
funds meant for buying cattle feed were embezzled in undivided
Bihar, a lawyer said.
"The recording of statement in the case (registered in 1996) began
Monday. Two former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and
Jagannath Mishra will record statements Tuesday," Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI) lawyer B.M.P. Singh told reporters here
Monday.
On Monday, statements of nine people were recorded in the court.
The accused whose statements were recorded included Jagdish
Sharma, a Lok Sabha MP from Jahanabad in Bihar, former Indian
Administrative Service officers Julius Beck, Mahendra Prasad and
Phul Chandra Singh and animal husbandry department officers K.M.
Prasad and S.N. Sharma.
There are 46 accused in the case, including Lalu Yadav and Mishra.
The recording of the statements of the accused began Monday and
will continue till Wednesday.
Lalu Yadav Monday arrived in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi to appear
in the CBI court Tuesday.
The case is one of the 61 registered in the fodder scam and is
related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs.37 crore from Chaibasa
treasury, now in Jharkhand. There were 330 witnesses in the case
and statements of all of them have been recorded.
Lalu Prasad and Mishra are accused in five cases related to the
scam. Their trial is on in CBI courts in Ranchi. Lalu Prasad had
to quit the Bihar chief minister's post in 1997 after an arrest
warrant was issued against him.
The fodder scam hit the headlines in the late 1990s in Bihar,
where officials and politicians were accused of illegally
withdrawing crores of rupees of public money in the guise of
purchasing cattle fodder.
A total of 61 cases were filed in the scam and 53 were transferred
to Jharkhand after it was carved out from Bihar in 2000.
The different CBI courts in Ranchi have passed judgments in 40
cases.
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