Lalu Prasad’s bail plea in Dumka treasury case deferred till Nov. 27
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The Rashtriya Janata Dal chief was convicted in the case pertaining to the fraudulent withdrawal of ₹3.13 crore and was awarded 5 years’ jail time period.
The bail plea of Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad in the case pertaining to the fraudulent withdrawal of ₹3.13 crore from Dumka treasury was deferred till November 27 by the Jharkhand High Court on Friday.
“Lalu Prasad has served over half of the jail term in the case, so we had applied for bail but CBI deliberately did not file counter affidavit in the case and the court asked CBI to file it by November 23 so that the case could be heard on November 27,” Prabhat Kumar, Mr. Prasad’s lawyer, informed The Puucho.
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Mr. Prasad was convicted in the Dumka (Jharkhand) treasury case and was awarded 5 years’ jail time period.
In the multi-crore fodder rip-off instances in Jharkhand, Mr. Prasad was convicted in 4 out of complete 5 instances and had acquired bail in three instances.
In October this 12 months, he was granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court in Chaibasa treasury case (RC 68 (a) / 1996) as he had served half of the jail time period.
Currently Mr. Prasad is present process remedy on the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences for a number of ailments. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he’s housed at Kelly Bungalow on the hospital premises.
After being convicted in the fodder rip-off instances, the RJD chief has been on the Birsa Munda central jail of Jharkhand since December 2017.
There have been excessive expectations in the get together circles that Mr. Prasad would get bail in the Dumka treasury case and be launched from jail.
Recently, his youthful son and anointed inheritor Tejashwi Yadav in his marketing campaign for the Bihar Assembly ballot mentioned that his father would come out of jail on November 9 and there could be a “farewell of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, next day”.
“Laluji is getting released on November 9 which also happens to be my birthday. However, the next day on November 10, Nitishji will have his farewell,” Mr. Yadav mentioned.
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