CBI opposes Lalu Prasad’s bail plea in Dumka treasury case
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The former Bihar CM, was sentenced on March 24, 2018 to 14-years rigorous imprisonment by the CBI court docket in the Dumka treasury embezzlement case of fodder rip-off
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday submitted its written opposition to Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad’ss bail plea in Jharkhand High Court in the fodder rip-off case associated to Dumka treasury saying that he has not served a single days sentence in reference to it.
Prasad’s attorneys claimed that he has accomplished half of his sentence in judicial custody in the case.
Also learn: What is the lowdown on the fodder rip-off
Prasad, the previous Bihar chief minister, was sentenced on March 24, 2018 to 14-years rigorous imprisonment by CBI particular decide Shivpal Singh in the Dumka treasury embezzlement case of fodder rip-off.
The former Bihar chief minister, convicted in 4 fodder rip-off instances, would have the ability to stroll out of the jail if he acquires bail in the case.
He has already secured bail in three different instances.
The CBI in its reply stated that Lalu Prasad has thus far been convicted by CBI courts in 4 completely different instances of fodder rip-off and in the Dumka case he has been sentenced to 14 years’ rigorous imprisonment.
The particular CBI court docket has not talked about anyplace in its order that the sentence given to Prasad in Dumka case will run concurrently with the sentences given to him in different instances of fodder rip-off and the punishment underneath part 427 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
If the court docket doesn’t point out this, the sentences of the accused are carried out one after the opposite.
The CBI in its reply additionally stated that Prasad himself had not made any request to the CBI particular court docket to hold out his sentences concurrently.
At current, Lalu Prasad is serving jail phrases in three different fodder rip-off instances and his judicial custody in the Dumka case will begin solely after the completion of these sentences.
Prasad’s lawyer Kapil Sibal arguing for his bail had instructed the court docket that he was affected by diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart illness, power kidney illness, fatty liver and numerous different illness and so he has not been saved in Birsa Munda Central jail however admitted in RIMS.
Sibal had requested the court docket to grant him bail in the case as he had served half his sentence and was unwell.
The Jharkhand High Court on November 6 had deferred the RJD chief’s bail plea listening to in the fodder rip-off case associated to Dumka treasury to November 27 after the CBI sought extra time to file a written reply in the matter.
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