Big setback to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav in fodder scam.
In a major setback to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed a plea by the Central Bureau of India (CBI) opposing dropping of charges by Jharkhand High Court in the fodder scam case.
The top court set aside Jharkhand High Court order by which trial against Lalu Yadav and others were stayed after conviction in one of the fodder scam cases.
The senior RJD leader will now have to face a separate trial. The top court also ordered trial court to complete the trial within 9 months
The apex court said that Jharkhand High Court should have been consistent in its findings and should not have given different views for different sets of accused in a case.
Earlier, the CBI had filed a plea in the apex court against the dropping of a conspiracy charge against Lalu Prasad by the Jharkhand High Court in one of the fodder scam cases.
The probe agency then filed its latest appeal against the High Court order upholding the agency's plea to continue proceedings in the trial court against Prasad under two sections, while dropping other charges on grounds that a person could not be tried twice for the same offence.
The High Court had ordered that proceedings against Yadav be continued under IPC Sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of an offence committed or giving false information) and 511 (attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment, and in such attempt doing any act towards the commission of the offence).
The charges are in connection with the case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 96 lakh during Yadav's chief ministerial tenure.
The fodder scam relates to fraudulent withdrawal of around Rs. 1,000 crore by the Animal Husbandry department from various districts when Lalu was the Bihar chief minister from 1990 to 1997.
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