Summary:
Ranchi, Apr 22 (PTI) Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad in the Doranda Treasury Case in which a CBI special court had sentenced him to five years in prison.
73-year-old Prasad is in custody following his conviction and sentencing by a CBI court in February in a fodder scam case involving embezzlement of over Rs 139 crore from Doranda treasury.
"The Jharkhand High court has accepted our petition for suspension of the sentence and has granted bail.
We had pleaded that he has served more than half of his five-year sentence in this case.
Prasad has already served 41 months in jail ...We had submitted the trial court"s certified copy in this regard.
The court has granted bail," Prabhat Kumar, counsel of Lalu Prasad told PTI.