A special CBI court is set to pronounce sentencing of RJD chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in the multi-million fodder scam tomorrow (Friday). The CBI court had convicted Lalu Prasad and 15 others in the fodder case, or the chara-ghotala case, on December 23, 21 years after the case first surfaced. Lalu Prasad was the chief minister of Bihar from 1990 to 1997. The CBI court acquitted former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra and five others in the case. Besides Lalu Prasad, the convicted include three former IAS officers, Phoolchand Mandal, Beck Julius and Mahesh Prasad.

Source: India Today January 04, 2018 05:37 UTC