Lalu Prasad Yadav found guilty in fodder scam case, taken into custody

Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav was on Saturday convicted by a special CBI court in the 1996 fodder scam case along with 14 others co-accused in the case. Lalu Prasad Yadav was taken into custody immediately after the verdict and sent to a jail in Ranchi.

Former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra, who was also a co-accused, has been acquitted along with seven others. 

The quantum of sentence for



the guilty will be pronounced on January 3.

After the verdict, Lalu Prasad tweeted that "truth had been made to appear as a lie"

 "Truth can be made to appear as a lie, as ambiguous or a half lie by concerted onslaught of bias driven propaganda. But blurred layer of bias and hatred will still be removed, come what may! In end Truth will win," the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)  chief wrote on Twitter.