{"id":121870,"date":"2018-01-06T17:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=121870"},"modified":"2018-01-06T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T12:10:10","slug":"lalu-gets-3-5-years-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/lalu-gets-3-5-years-jail-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Lalu gets 3.5 years Jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bihar’s veteran politician Lalu Yadav, who was convicted in the second case of fodder scam — involving the embezzlement of more than Rs. 84.5 lakh in government funds — was given three-and-a-half-years jail term and a fine of Rs. 5 lakh by a special court in Bihar today. It is unclear whether the 69-year-old will be able to walk out of jail in the near future.<\/p>\n

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\nIn Patna, Mr Yadav’s son Tejashwi Yadav, who held an emergency strategy meet with the leaders of his Rashtriya Janata Dal, said, “The judiciary has performed its duty.<\/p>\n

We will go to the High Court after studying the sentence and apply for a bail”. The former Chief Minister, who is in Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Jail, received his sentence through video-conference. The court was expected to pronounce the quantum of the sentence earlier, a day after it reopened after winter break, but deferred the sentencing to Saturday.<\/p>\n

It also held RJD leaders Tejashwi Yadav, Raghuvansh Singh, Shivanand Tiwari and Congress leader Manish Tiwari in contempt of court for their statements to the media after Lalu Prasad\u2019s conviction.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is shocking because none of us uttered a single word against the judicial process or the judgement,\u201d RJD leader Manoj Jha told media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bihar’s veteran politician Lalu Yadav, who was convicted in the second case of fodder scam — involving the embezzlement of more than Rs. 84.5 lakh in government funds — was given three-and-a-half-years jail term and a fine of Rs. 5 lakh by a special court in Bihar today. It is unclear whether the 69-year-old will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[306,26457,62511,62513,62512,62514],"class_list":["post-121870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-congress","tag-judgement","tag-lalu-gets-3-5-years-jail-term","tag-raghuvansh-singh","tag-rjd-leaders-tejashwi-yadav","tag-shivanand-tiwari"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/e2-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}