Jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav likely to see open skies

PATNA: Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, was today granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court, in a case linked to the Bihar fodder scam.

The former Bihar chief minister was serving his sentence in the infamous fodder scam, also known as the "Dumka Treasury Case".

Yadav had earlier got bail in three out of the four cases linked to the scam. With today’s bail, he can now return home after being released from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, where he is undergoing treatment.

However, he can neither leave the country without permission nor change his address and mobile number during the bail period.

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Yadav was convicted and imprisoned in several fodder scam cases for fraudulently withdrawing money from different districts of Jharkhand in undivided Bihar in the 1990s.

He was lodged at Birsa Munda Central jail in Ranchi since December 2017.

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