Rashtriya Janata Dal President Laloo Prasad Yadav was taken to Ranchi by a service flight for producing before the court of designated CBI judge H C Mishra on Monday in connection with a conspiracy angle case of multi-crore fodder scam.
In accordance with an administrative decision, the former Bihar chief minister was flown on Monday with a few security men to Ranchi where he will be kept in judicial custody at the beacon guest house camp jail. Yadav is in judicial custody ever since the designated judge rejected his bail application after he surrendered before him at Ranchi on November 26.
The conspiracy angle case relates to fraudulent withdrawal of over Rs 137 crore by animal husbandry department officials through forged bills from Doranda treasury. The RJD leader was flown to Patna in a state government aircraft on December 3 and produced before special court of S K Mishra in connection with disproportionate assets case, an offshoot of the fodder scam.
Yadav was accused of amassing wealth of over Rs 47 lakh disproportionate to his known sources of income when he was the chief minister between 1990 and 1997.
The RJD chief was likely to return to Patna again following a directive of the Patna Court asking him and his chief minister wife Rabri Devi to appear before it on December 13 for recording their statements in connection with the DA case against them following conclusion of examination of the prosecution witnesses. Bureau Report