A magistrate court in Daltonganj today fined and acquitted Lalu Yadav in a 13 year old case of the violation of the model code of conduct said two of the advocates of Lalu Yadav namely Ramdeo Prasad Yadav and D K Singh alias Pappu Singh here in Daltonganj.
Lalu Yadav was fined 6,000 rupees, said the advocate duo. It was paid on the spot. As Lalu Yadav was acquitted of the case, the magistrate court declared this case 'disposed of'.
Advocate D K Singh alias Pappu Singh said the magistrate court waived imprisonment as their client Lalu Yadav had already served it earlier in Ranchi.
Ramdeo Prasad Yadav said Lalu Yadav had an advocate in Prabhat Kumar of the Jharkhand High Court Ranchi who too was here in the magistrate court.
Lalu Yadav left for Patna by air today. He had come to Daltonganj on June 6 by air and was put up in the old circuit house.
Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav, state president of the RJD said the 2009 case of the violation of the model code of conduct was in the Garhwa district where Lalu Yadav's chopper had landed in an open field instead of the helipad.
Sanjay said our leader had a poll campaign meeting at the campus of the Gobind high school at Garhwa in April 2009 where following a huge crowd of people there the pilot of the chopper had to land Lalu Yadav in a nearby open field.
The then BDO Garhwa lodged the FIR against Lalu Yadav the pilot of the said chopper and many others.
The 13 years old case was finally disposed of today in Daltonganj civil court based MP MLA special court headed by a judicial magistrate.