The CBI on Tuesday submitted its written opposition to RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s bail plea in Jharkhand supreme court within the fodder scam case associated with Dumka treasury saying that he has not served one day sentence in reference to it.
Lalu Prasad’s lawyers claimed that he has completed half his sentence in judicial custody within the case.
Prasad, the previous Bihar chief minister, was sentenced on March 24, 2018 to 14-years rigorous imprisonment by CBI special judge Shivpal Singh within the Dumka treasury embezzlement case of fodder scam.
The former Bihar chief minister, convicted in four fodder scam cases, would be ready to walk out of the jail if he acquires bail within the case.
He has already secured bail in three other cases.
The CBI in its reply said that Lalu Prasad has thus far been convicted by CBI courts in four different cases of fodder scam and within the Dumka case he has been sentenced to 14 years’ rigorous imprisonment.
The special CBI court has not mentioned anywhere in its order that the sentence given to Prasad in Dumka case will run concurrently with the sentences given to him in other cases of fodder scam and therefore the punishment under section 427 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
If the court doesn’t mention this, the sentences of the accused are administered one after the opposite .
The CBI in its reply also said that Prasad himself had not made any request to the CBI special court to hold out his sentences concurrently.
At present, Lalu Yadav is serving jail terms in three other fodder scam cases and his judicial custody within the Dumka case will start only after the completion of these sentences.
Prasad’s lawyer Kapil Sibal asserting his bail had told the court that he was affected by diabetes, high vital sign , heart condition , chronic renal disorder , liver disease and various other disease then he has not been kept in Birsa Munda Central jail but admitted in RIMS.
