"Under sections of IPC and PC acts, he has been fined Rs 5 lakh each, which means he will have to pay a total fine of Rs 10 lakh. Lalu's counsel Prabhat Kumar said that they would move high court. "We will soon move high court and plead for bail," he said. In Jharkhand, these pertain to withdrawals of Rs 37 crore from Chaibasa treasury (RC 68A/96), Rs 3.76 crore from Dumka treasury (RC 38A/96) and Rs 139 crore from Doranda treasury (RC 47A/96). When one of those sentenced pleaded for leniency, special CBI judge Shivpal Singh asked him to appeal in a high court.

Source: The Telegraph January 06, 2018 22:30 UTC