A day after CBI filed a counter affidavit opposing Lalu Prasad Yadav’s bail plea, the Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected his plea in the multi-crore fodder scam.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Rajan Gogoi said it is not inclined to enlarge Yadav on bail in the cases.The bench rejected Yadav’s arguments that he has been in jail for 24 months, saying in comparison to the 14-year sentence awarded to him, 24 months was nothing.
The former Bihar chief minister had sought bail on medical grounds, to which the CBI had said that bail to him would set “very wrong precedent” in cases involving “serious corruption in high offices”.
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The CBI had yesterday vehemently opposed in the apex court the bail plea of Yadav, saying the ailing leader suddenly claimed to be “fully fit” to undertake political activities in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The three cases in which Lalu Prasad Yadav has been convicted are related to the over-Rs 900-crore fodder scam, which pertains to fraudulent withdrawal of money from the treasuries in the Animal Husbandry department in the early 1990s when Jharkhand was part of Bihar.
The RJD was in power in Bihar with Prasad as the chief minister when the scam had allegedly taken place.
