Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Thursday filed a petition in the Jharkhand High Court appealing against a special CBI court convicting him in a fodder scam case.
His counsel Chitaranjan moved the petition against the conviction of the special CBI which had on September 30 convicted him and on October 3 sent him to five years rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 25 lakh against him.
The petition also sought granting of bail to Yadav and a stay on sentence and fine amount against him.
Prasad’s petition comes after the CBI court of Pravas Kumar Singh had convicted him, another Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra and 43 others for fraudulently drawing Rs 37.7 crore from Chaibasa treasury in the 1990s.
The CBI court, which had granted bail to eight convicts on the conviction day, sent Prasad, Mishra and 36 others to prison between three and five years.
Lalu is also facing charges in four other fodder cases out of a total 53 cases, forty-five of them ending in convictions by separate special CBI courts.
