Lalu Prasad Yadav.
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Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday admitted an appeal by the CBI for increasing the period of sentence given to RJD chief Lalu Prasad in a scam related to the Deoghar treasury.
Prasad was convicted in the scam related to the Deoghar treasury, which involved alleged defalcation of Rs 89 lakh.
The special CBI court had convicted Yadav in the case and sentenced him to undergo imprisonment for 3.5 years.
The CBI moved an appeal against the order, stating that Yadav was overall in charge of the animal husbandry department at that time.
Investigation had revealed that he was aware of the defalcation in the Deoghar treasury. Yet the lower court only awarded a sentence of 3.5 years for the offence, which carries a maximum sentence of seven years, it said.
Jharkhand was part of Bihar when the alleged irregularities had taken place.