Ranchi: Incarcerated RJD president Lalu Prasad’s dream to be a free man sooner was dashed on Friday after the Jharkhand high court deferred the hearing of his sentence suspension plea for another six weeks in one of the fodder scam cases.
The legal team of Lalu, who is convicted in four fodder scam cases in Jharkhand and jailed in Ranchi since December 2017, had filed a petition for suspension of his sentence on the ground that the former Bihar chief minister had completed half of his jail terms and should be released as provisioned in CrPC 436(A).
However, during the hearing on Friday in connection with the suspension of sentence for the fraudulent withdrawal of funds from the Dumka treasury, the legal team sought deferment, saying it needs time to compute the quantum of his jail time after getting certified documents from lower courts and to file a fresh supplementary affidavit.