CBI court orders jail for fodder scam accused

Eight fodder scam accused were sentenced up to five years rigorous imprisonment by a CBI court .

Eight fodder scam accused were today sentenced up to five years rigorous imprisonment by a CBI court here.

Special CBI judge Bireshwar Jha Prabir awarded five years RI to ex-regional director of animal husbandry department K N Singh,ex-budget and accounts officer B B Prasad and fodder suppliers Mahendra Prasad and T M Prasad.

The court also slapped fines ranging between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 6.9 lakh on them.

The eight were convicted by the court yesterday.

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Former Accounts officer K N Ram and fodder suppliers S K Sinha and Sushil Kumar Sinha were ordered four years rigorous imprisonment and fined between Rs 2.5 lakh and 5.9 lakh.

The court handed out three-and-a-half years RI to another supplier Arun Kumar Sinha and fined him Rs 1.4 lakh.

The court yesterday had sentenced only one supplier,Anil Kumar to two and half years of rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 40,000 after finding all the nine guilty of withdrawing Rs 50.37 lakh fraudulently from Hazaribagh Treasury in the 1990s in the RC 29A/96 case.

All the convicts would get another six months simple imprisonment if they failed to deposit the fine ammounts.

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This was the 35th of the 53 fodder scam cases to have ended in conviction since the Rs 950 crore scam was unearthed in the 1990s in undivided Bihar.

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