The Jharkhand High Court has rejected the bail petition of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad in connection with the fodder scam case, NDTV has reported.
The court had on February 12 deferred the hearing to Friday. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal who had appeared in the court in the previous hearing on behalf of Lalu Prasad presented the record of tenure spent in jail by the RJD chief.
He had said that Lalu Prasad has so far spent 28 months and 29 days in jail. On the other hand, the CBI had claimed that he had spent only 27 months and 6 days in jail.
The hearing on the bail petition is related to the fraudulent withdrawal from the Dumka treasury.
Prabhat Kumar, lawyer of the former Bihar Chief Minister, had said Lalu Prasad is all set to come out of jail but the CBI is deliberately delaying the matter.
