The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking the cancellation of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav's bail in cases linked to the alleged fodder scam. The court will hear the petition on August 25.
Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, appearing for the CBI, requested a bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and comprising of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Manoj Misra for early listing of the matter, Live Law reported.
The former Bihar Chief Minister has been convicted in four cases related to the alleged fodder scam. These cases are related to illegal withdrawal from Dumka, Deoghar, Chaibasa and Doranda treasuries. He is currently out on bail in the first three cases on grounds that he has undergone half the sentence.
Last year, Lalu Prasad was granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court in the Doranda treasury case on health grounds. A CBI special court had sentenced him to five years in prison in the case pertaining to illegal withdrawal of Rs 139.35 crore from Doranda treasury in 1995-1996.
The fodder scam refers to cases of financial irregularities to the tune of around Rs 930 crore in the animal husbandry department of Bihar between 1985-1995. Then, Congress was in power in Bihar and Jagannath Mishra was the chief minister.
Apart from Lalu Yadav and Jagannath Mishra, hundreds of persons have been convicted in the scam. Mishra passed away in 2019.
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Earlier this year, the CBI filed a supplementary chargesheet against Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, Lalu Prasad, former Bihar CM Rabri Devi and others in connection with the alleged land-for-jobs scam.
The case pertains to alleged corruption when Lalu Prasad served as railway minister in the Congress government from 2004 to 2009.
The CBI has alleged that people were given jobs in the Railways allegedly in lieu of land plots. Lalu Prasad and his family allegedly acquired more than 1 lakh sqft of land for a paltry Rs 26 lakh when its then cumulative market value was more than Rs 4.39 crore, according to the CBI.