Ranchi,October 3,2013: Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad was on Thursday sentenced to five years in prison and fined Rs.25 lakh for his involvement in the fodder scam that surfaced 17 years ago.
The sentencing took away Lalu Prasad’s membership of the Lok Sabha, putting a question mark on the future of one of the country’s best known politicians.
The special CBI court of Pravas Kumar Singh also jailed former chief minister Jagannath Mishra and JD-U leader Jagdish Sharma for four years each.
According to prison sources, Lalu Prasad, 67, who founded the RJD in 1997, looked dazed as he heard the sentence over video conference facility at the Birsa Munda Central Jail.With Thursday’s sentencing, Lalu Prasad becomes the second politician this week to lose membership of parliament in line with a Supreme Court ruling.
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SOURCE:Agencies
