A special CBI court in Ranchi today sentenced RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav to 7 years in prison in Dumka treasury case. The case is related to fraudulent withdrawals of Rs 3.13 crore from December 1995 to January 1996 from the Dumka treasury, was completed on March 5.
Lalu Prasad Yadav has been serving a jail term in Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Central Jail since December last year after his conviction in two other fodder scam cases. He was shifted to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences
(RIMS)on Wednesday after he complained of chest pain.
Earlier in the week, Lalu Prasad Yadav’s wife Rabri Devi, said,” We will follow Court’s order & won’t leave Bihar & go anywhere else however we are also going to appeal in the Court.”
Lalu Yadav was first convicted in a fodder scam case in 2013 and was awarded five years’ imprisonment while the conviction in the second case came in December last year.
