Lalu Prasad Yadav convicted in third fodder scam case

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday was convicted in the third fodder scam case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 33.67 crore from Chaibasa treasury in 1992-1993.

The judgment was delivered by Special CBI court judge S S Prasad.

Former Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra, who was acquitted in the second fodder scam case in December 2017, was also pronounced guilty of embezzling funds from the Chaibasa treasury.

Following the judgement, today, Lalu's son Tejashwi Yadav claimed that the Nitish Kumar government are trying to frame the RJD Chief and added that they would challenge the verdicts in higher courts.

Lalu Prasad Yadav was first convicted in a fodder scam case in 2013 and was awarded five years' imprisonment.