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RANCHI: Senior superintendent of police Surendra Kumar Jha assured the Jharkhand high court here on Wednesday of arresting the assailants of advocate Manoj Jha soon. The lawyer was shot dead in Tamar on July 26.
Jha was appearing before a division bench of chief justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and justice Sujit Narayan Prasad while hearing a petition filed by the Advocates Association, Jharkhand high court. The court expressed its dismay over the incident of Jha being shot in the open by miscreants.
The bench while directing the SSP to expedite the investigation also said that the death of an advocate in broad daylight was very serious. The culprits should be immediately arrested, the judges said. The SSP, Ranchi informed the court that investigation has already commenced and the killers will be nabbed soon.
Ranchi: Twelve days after the Jharkhand high court suspended the jail term of RJD president Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case, lawyers of jailed former Bihar chief minister on Thursday secured his release order from the special CBI court here, following which he has been set free.
Lalu s lawyer Prabhat Kumar said, We have fulfilled the conditions set by the high court, including the furnishing of two sureties of Rs one lakh each and depositing a fine of Rs 10 lakh. The court has now granted the release order.
When contacted, Hamid Akhtar, the superintendent of the Birsa Munda Central Jail, where Lalu is officially lodged, said, the court order has been sent by e-mail to the All Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, where Lalu is currently undergoing treatment under custody, for his release.
Lalu has been serving a prison term in the Dumka fodder scam case and was airlifted to AIIMS, New Delhi, in January for treatment of various illnesses
RANCHI: Twelve days after the Jharkhand high court suspended the jail term of RJD president Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case, lawyers of jailed former Bihar chief minister on Thursday secured his release order from the special CBI court here, following which he has been set free.
Lalu s lawyer Prabhat Kumar said, “We have fulfilled the conditions set by the high court, including the furnishing of two sureties of Rs one lakh each and depositing a fine of Rs 10 lakh. The court has now granted the release order.
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RANCHI: RJD president Lalu Prasad will have to wait for some more days before he is released despite securing bail in fodder scam cases as advocates in the state are abstaining from court work due to the surge in Covid-19 cases.
Prasad is serving jail time after being convicted by a special CBI court in connection to a fodder scam case related to fraudulent withdrawal from the Dumka treasury. Last Saturday, the Jharkhand high court granted him bail in the case. Prasad has already got bail in fodder scam cases related to Deoghar and Chaibasa treasuries.