Lalu and 16 others are convicted in the fodder scam. The sentence will be pronounced on January 3. The case is pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of more than Rs 89 lakh from Deoghar Treasury between 1991 and 1994.There are 6 cases against Lalu and was also convicted in one of the cases earlier.
Lalu, accompanied by younger son Tejaswi Yadav, arrived here to present himself before the special CBI Judge Shiv Pal Singh.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo had said that he respected the judiciary and expressed hope that he would also get a clean chit in the fodder scam case.
“We trust and respect the judiciary. We will not let BJP`s conspiracies work,” Lalu Prasad Yadav said here.
Expressing hope for a fair judgment, the former Bihar chief minister had also said that the BJP governments since the time of Atal Bihari Vajpayee have been harassing him and his family by misusing the CBI for the past 25 years.
The fodder scam case relates to the alleged fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 95 lakh from the Deoghar treasury.Overall, more than Rs.900 crore was reportedly syphoned off from the Chaibasa treasury over two decades.
