Fodder Scam
Charges framed against Laloo
Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav was present in a court yesterday, when charges were framed against him and 69 others in a case relating to the Rs 9.5 billion fodder scam.
Almost a decade after the scam was unearthed in Bihar, Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge Umashankar Prasad Sinha framed charges in case no. RC 68A/96.
This relates to allegedly fraudulent withdrawals between 1990 and 1995 by the Animal Husbandry Department of over Rs 370 million, ostensibly for the purchase of fodder, from the Chaibasa treasury, now part of Jharkhand.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The trial is to begin after the framing of charges.
The scam surfaced in 1996. The Patna High Court had directed the cases be handed over to the CBI.
After Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar in 2000, 39 of the 61 cases were transferred to the new state. Laloo Prasad appealed against this in the Supreme Court, which rejected his contention.
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