A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Monday pronounced the quantum of sentence for RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and 37 others, who were recently convicted in the Doranda Treasury case related to the fodder scam.

News agency ANI reported that the CBI court said the convict Lalu Yadav, would be sentenced to five years in jail. In addition, he was fined Rs 60 lakh as part of the quantum of sentence.

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Earlier, Lalu Prasad Yadav was found guilty in the Rs 139.5 crore Doranda treasury embezzlement case, the fifth and final case against him in the fodder scam. The former Bihar chief minister was among the remaining convicts whose quantum of sentence was pronounced on Monday.

Soon after the conviction, the 73-year-old RJD chief was shifted to Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi and then he was admitted to the state-run Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), an official said.

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It is reported that Lalu had been sentenced to 14 years in jail in four other fodder scam cases. The final case was related to withdrawals of Rs 139.35 crore from Doranda treasury during his tenure as the chief minister of undivided Bihar.

In the course of the 22-year-long trial, 55 accused died, while eight turned government approvers. As many as six accused are still absconding.

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The fodder scam, pegged at Rs 950 crore, was first unearthed by the then Chaibasa deputy commissioner Amit Khare.

The CBI named Lalu as an accused in June 1997. The agency framed charges against Lalu and former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra, who died in 2019.

The central agency had registered 53 separate cases in connection with the scam in 1996.