A special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday sentenced 16 convicts in the withdrawal of Rs 37.70 crore on the basis of fake papers from Chaibasa treasury in Fodder scam case.
Out of total 16 convicts, 11 convicts were sentenced to three years Rigorous Imprisonment, while five others accused were sentenced to four years RI each. These people have been fined a maximum of Rs 7 lakh and minimum Rs 25,000.
In the case of Chaibasa Treasury on the basis of illegal documents, there were charges against accused of misusing of government post, criminal conspiracy and fraud. In this case, there were 16 accused including drug supplier Anil Kumar Singh, Sanjeev Kumar Basudev, Mohammad Sayeed, Salwar Rahman and others. After the testimony of senior IAS officer Amit Khare, the court recorded statements of the accused.
During the previous hearing, the court of special CBI judge SN Mishra had fixed the date of the judgment after hearing the arguments of both parties.
According to the information, the CBI filed a chargesheet against 20 accused in the illegal withdrawal of about Rs 37 crore from Chaibasa treasury.
Umesh Dubey, Mahendra Kumar Kundan, Aditya Jharkar, Vimal Kumar Agarwal, Brij Kishore Agarwal, Ram Avtar Sharma, Rajendra Kumar Harit, Sanjeev Kumar Basudev, Kishore Kumar Jha, Basant Kumar Singh, Madhu, Aparnaita Kundu, Sahdev Prasad, Lal Mohan Gup, Bharateshwar Narayan Lal and Anil Kumar were convicted and sentenced by the court.
One of the convicted persons in Fodder Scam, Lalu Prasad is currently serving sentence in Ranchi. Due to his sickness he is admitted to Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS). Lalu went to jail related to the case first time on July 30, 1997. He was later released on December 12, 1997. In the year 2017, Lalu was convicted by the special CBI court and since then he has been in jail.