The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Rs 139.35-crore Doranda treasury case related to the fodder scam.
“He will be released soon.He will have to deposit Rs 1 lakh surety amount and Rs 10 lakh as fine,” Yadav’s counsel told Indian Express.
Yadav had filed the bail application on the grounds that he is in poor health.
The former Bihar chief minister and one of the country’s tallest politicians is 73 years old.
A special CBI court in Ranchi had on 21 February sentenced Yadav to jail for five years in the case. The court had also imposed a fine of Rs 60 lakh on him.
Yadav has already been convicted in four other cases related to the scam.
