RJD Chief Minister lalu Yadav on Monday recorded his statement at a special CBI court in a fodder scam case related to illegal withdrawal of money from Deoghar treasury.
“lalu ji answered the questions asked by the court for over four hours which were more or less similar to the questioned asked in RC20A/96,” said one of his counsels Prabhat Kumar.lalu reiterated that he has been fabricated in the case and the allegations made on him are totally fake and frivolous. Moreover, the CBI has no evidences against him.
“I never tried to cover up the case, rather it was I who ordered a probe in the case,” said lalu. lalu recorded his statement in the court of A K Rai under CrPC 313 in connection with RC 64A/96 pertaining to illegal withdrawal of Rs 96 lakh from Deogarh Treasury in 1990s.According to Kumar Prasad appeared in the same court in connection with RC 38A/96 pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.97 crore from Dumka treasury in the 1990s.
lalu also appeared in the court of Balmukund Rai in another fodder scam case RC 47A/96 pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 184 crore from Doranda Treasury allegedly during his Chief Ministerial tenure.The court of AK Rai on July 1 had dismissed Prasad’s petition pleading not to be tried for the same offence in another fodder scam after being convicted in the RC 20/96 case in September last year.
lalu has already been convicted on October 3, 2013 and sentenced to five years imprisonment on September 30 last year in fodder scam case RC 20A/96 pertaining to the fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37.7 crore from Chaibasa Treasury. The sentencing also took away lalu’s membership of the lok Sabha.