On the basis of an urgent mention by additional solicitor general (ASG) SV Raju, a bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud consented to list the agency’s appeal on August 25.

The CBI challenged the parole granted to the former union minister on April 22, 2022, by the Jharkhand high court. During his time as Bihar’s chief minister, Lalu Yadav was convicted in five cases involving the illicit withdrawal of funds from state treasuries in Deoghar, Dumka, Chaibasa, and Doranda. The CBI’s petition has been joined with another appeal lodged by the Jharkhand government in April 2021 against the release on bail of the former chief minister.

The RJD was eager to criticise the CBI’s decision to request an early court hearing. Tejashwa Yadav, the deputy chief minister of Bihar and son of Lalu, stated that this was anticipated of the agency and that such efforts by the investigation agency will continue until the elections.

“Their greatest dread stems from Bihar, which explains why these events are occurring. It will persist until the elections…We have no fear. We are aware of our next steps. “We will fight and win,” Tejashwi Yadav declared.

The 75-year-old RJD leader was granted parole due to his poor health.

In April of last year, the Jharkhand government appealed an earlier order of parole granted to Lalu Yadav in April of 2021 to the nation’s highest court, where the agency’s petition is currently pending.

The 950 billion fodder scam involved substantial disbursements from state treasuries based on counterfeit bills in 1997, when Lalu was chief minister of the state and held the finance portfolio.

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In its appeal, the CBI asserted that the high court erred in concluding that Lalu had served half of his sentence. According to him, Lalu’s sentences were to run consecutively, one after the other, resulting in a 14-year sentence. According to the CBI’s filing, Lalu had served approximately one year in prison at the time he was granted parole.

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Tuesday at 10:40 a.m., two vehicles carrying seven CBI agents arrived at the residence of Misha Bharti in Pandara Park, Delhi. Lalu Prasad currently resides there, and the interrogation lasted approximately two hours.

CBI teams videotaped his interrogation, and a Deputy Inspector General (DIG) led the investigation. The interrogation was focused on particular documents. Misa Bharti, daughter of Lalu, was also present during her father’s interrogation.

This comes a day after former Bihar chief minister and wife of Lalu Prasad, Rabri Devi, was questioned for nearly five hours at her residence in Patna.

In October 2022, the CBI filed a chargesheet against sixteen defendants, including Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi, for criminal conspiracy and corruption. According to the complaint, Lalu Prasad and others were charged following the conclusion of a preliminary investigation. The sixteen defendants were all summoned on March 15.
Officials told PTI that the CBI is conducting a new round of interrogations as part of its “further investigation” into the money trail and a larger conspiracy.

Opposition Targets BJP

On Monday, opposition parties responded angrily to the renewed interrogation of the ailing RJD leader.Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister and son of Lalu Prasad, Tejashwi Yadav, stated that the CBI action was a consequence of his family’s “relentless opposition” to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Tejashwi Yadav told reporters outside the Bihar Assembly, “It is an open secret that investigation agencies are targeting political opponents of the BJP and assisting those who consent to align themselves with that party.”

The Congress and the AAP also attacked the central government over Lalu Yadav’s interrogation, claiming that the BJP seeks to “suppress” the opposition’s voice.

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On Twitter, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stated, “Rabri Devi ji is currently being harassed. Lalu Prasad ji and his family have been persecuted for years for refusing to bend down.”

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