Former Bihar Chief Minister lalu Prasad became the second Chief Minister after former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda to be lodged in the hi-tech Birsa Munda Central Jail. like Koda, lalu has also been lodged in the upper division cell where Koda remained for about three and a half years. Senior RJD leader Suresh Paswan and Jharkhand Minister Annapruna Devi were to first to meet him inside the jail just after he was shifted into it.
According to a jail official, as lalu is a high profile politician, proper arrangements of security will be taken care of. “All facilities which he deserves will be provided to lalu Yadav according to the jail manual. No special arrangement has been made for him,” said a jail official requesting anonymity.
The Upper division cell has been made for the high profile politicians which has facilities like a separate kitchen, separate TV. The inmates of this cell are provided mosquito nets as well as Newspapers, he added.
The inmates of this cell can entertain their near relatives and lawyers. RJD leaders Suresh Paswan and Annapurna Devi visited lalu Yadav in his cell just after he was lodged in the jail. Sources also said that laloo was served tea and biscuits as soon as he was lodged in his cell.
The cell was earlier occupied by the former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda who had been lodged in the BMCJ for about three and a half years in multi-crore money laundering case involving his other five cabinet colleagues who was released after he was granted bail in a graft case related to Rajiv Gandhi rural electrification scheme. Koda was the chief minister of Jharkhand from September 2006 to August 2008.
Former CM Jagannath Mishra, also convicted in the fodder scam case has been shifted to Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi from the jail immediately after he complained of illness.