RANCHI: The CBI is facing tough time in taking the five cases of the fodder scam in which two former chief ministers of Bihar, Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra were involved, to their logical end.
Special public prosecutors of the CBI dealing the five cases said by using the provisions of law and the loopholes both Prasad and Mishra had dragged the cases for years. Of the 53 cases, the CBI has finished trial and courts have convicted the accused in 43 cases in the past 17 years. The cases were lodged in Rs 900-crore scam in 1996 at the time of united Bihar.
The CBI officials and advocates, who were planning to end the trial of at least one of the five cases in 2012, are now doubtful if they will be able to end it even this year. Of the 10 cases in which trial has to be completed, five are related to Prasad.
"In one of the cases (RC 20) which is related to fraudulent withdrawal of around Rs 37 crore from the Chaibasa (West Singhbhum) treasury where the trial is at its fag end, Prasad is dragging it in the name of producing defence witnesses who are not in India. The way they are dragging the case by opposing the move of CBI in higher judiciary, we are doubtful about when the case will end," said a special public prosecutor.
The other four cases in which Lalu Prasad and other high profile people are accused includes RC 38, 47, 64 and 86
are at evidence stage. "If the high profile politicians don't drag the cases, we can expect judgment by end of this year or early next year," said a public prosecutor.
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