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Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is likely to walk out of prison soon. The Jharkhand High Court on Saturday granted him bail in connection with the withdrawal of Rs 3.5 crore from the Dumka treasury, in connection with a case linked to the multi-crore fodder scam.
Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh, granted bail to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader during the hearing on Saturday.
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The former Bihar CM has been convicted in wrongful withdrawal of money to the tune of Rs 1,000 crore from Dumka, Chaibasa and Deoghar treasuries and the special CBI court at Ranchi has already granted him bail in two cases registered in Chaibasa and one in Deoghar.
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Ranchi: In a first for Jharkhand, a transgender has been made part of a bench set up by the Ranchi district legal service authority (DLSA) to resolve disputes in the National Lok Adalat (NLA) scheduled on Saturday.
The transgender, noted social activist Amruta Soni (38), will be a member of the NLA’s bench number 19 which also comprises a judge and a panel lawyer.
Hailing from Sholapur district in Maharashtra, Soni completed graduation from the Jamia Milia University in 2007 and did MBA in marketing from the Symbiosis Institute in Pune. While growing up, Soni had to beg on the streets and was a former sex worker. Later, she worked as a nodal officer with project Vihaan which provided help to HIV-infected persons in Chhattisgarh.
RANCHI: The Jharkhand high court on Friday rejected Lalu Prasad s bail application in a fodder scam case, dashing the RJD president s chance of immediate release from jail.
Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh turned down Prasad s bail request in the Dumka treasury case, an offshoot of the multi- crore rupees fodder scam.
The court said since the RJD supremo has to serve two more months in jail to complete half of the tenure of his total sentence in the case, the bail plea is not granted and asked him to file a fresh application after two months.
Prasad has already acquired bail in three out of the four cases of the fodder scam in which he has been convicted and acceptance of his request in the case related to illegal withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury could have helped him come out of the jail.