India’s Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad was on Thursday sentenced to five years in imprison in a 17-year-old fodder scam case by a special CBI court after he was convicted on corruption and other charges four days ago.
The sentencing by special CBI judge Pravas Kumar Singh disqualifies Prasad from parliament and renders him ineligible for contesting elections for 11 years.
Sixty-five-year-old Prasad and other convicts are currently lodged in the Birsa Munda Central Jail here.
The former Bihar chief minister, who was convicted on September 30 dealing a body blow to RJD ahead of next Lok Sabha polls, was also fined Rs 2,500,000.
Another former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in the case.
Six other politicians and four IAS officers, among the convicted, were also sentenced to prison terms for fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37.7 crore from Chaibasa treasury when Mr Prasad was heading the RJD government in the early 1990s.
Of the 45 convicts, the judge had delivered the sentence against eight of them on September 30 itself.