Fodder scam accused names Laloo in CBI court

An accused in the fodder scam who has turned CBI-approver, on Saturday, alleged before a CBI court that RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav was pai...

An accused in the fodder scam who has turned CBI-approver, on Saturday, alleged before a CBI court that RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav was paid Rs 55-60 crore from Bihar government treasuries in the early 1990s.

Deposing before CBI Special Judge A.K. Sengupta in connection with a fodder scam case relating to Ranchi treasury, Dipesh Chandak alleged that the amount had been withdrawn fraudulently and paid in cash to Laloo who was then chief minister.

Chandak — who owned a fodder supply firm that existed only on paper — said he had been close to alleged kingpin of the multi-crore scam Dr S.B. Sinha, then assistant director of the Animal Husbandry department, and added that he had knowledge of the functioning of the department during the scam.

He further alleged that Rs 15 crore had been paid to Laloo in two installments before the 1995 Assembly polls. On Sinha’s direction, a supplier of fodder and medicine — M.S. Bedi — had given Rs 50 lakh to Laloo and another accused, Jagannath Mishra, after Sinha’s return from Australia in 1994, Chandak claimed.

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