A special CBI court on Tuesday rejected a petition by RJD chief Lalu Prasad requesting not to be tried in a fodder scam case as he had already been convicted in a similar case.
The court of CBI judge A.K. Mishra rejected the petition filed by Prasad under section 300 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Act which states that a person once convicted or acquitted not to be tried for the same offence again, his advocate Prabhat Kumar said in Ranchi.
RC 68A/96 pertains to alleged fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 36 crore from Chaibasa Treasury in 1993/94 fiscal when Prasad was Chief Minister of Bihar.
On July 1, 2014 the court of A.K. Rai had dismissed a similar petition in connection with the RC 64A/96 case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 96 lakh from Deogarh Treasury in the 1990s.
Prasad had been >convicted on September 30, 2013 and >sentenced to five years in jail on October 3, 2013 in the RC 20A/96 fodder case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 37.7 crore from the Chaibasa Treasury in 1994-95.
