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69 convicted in fodder scam
Thursday May 03, 2012 02:58:32 PM,
IANS
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Fodder scam: 64 convicts get jail terms in one case
Sixty-four
convicts were Tuesday given two to five years' jail terms by a CBI
special court here in a case related to the multi-crore rupee
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Ranchi:
A CBI court Thursday convicted 69 people and acquitted 16 in the
multi-crore fodder scam. Twenty-nine people have been sentenced to
one to three years imprisonment and fined between Rs.25,000 and
Rs.2 lakh.
The quantum of sentence against the others will be pronounced on
May 7.
The court announced its judgment on case RC 31 A/96 relating to
the fraudulent withdrawal of over Rs.45 crore from the Doranda
treasury here in the early 1990s
There were 111 accused in Animal Husbandry Department scam (also
known as the fodder scam). Some of the accused had died during
long the trial and many others had turned Central Bureau of
Investigation approvers.
Former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Yadav and Jaggnath Mishra are
accused in five cases related to the scam. Their trial is on in
CBI courts in Ranchi. Yadav had to quit as the chief minister in
1997 after an arrest warrant was issued against him.
The fodder scam hit the headlines in the 1990s in undivided Bihar,
when 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 the new state was carved out of Bihar in 2000.
Different CBI courts in Ranchi have passed judgments in 41 cases.
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