Laloo appears in court

PATNA, MAY 31. The RJD chief, Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav, today appeared before the court of designated CBI judge, S. K. Mishra, in a disproportionate assets case, an offshoot of fodder scam.

The disproportionate assets case charges Mr. Laloo Prasad with having accummulated wealth worth over Rs. 47 lakh disproportionate to his known sources of income.

His counsel, Mr. Chitranjan Sinha, told PTI that the special public prosecutor for CBI, Mr. I. R. Ansari, in a petition told the court that the agency would produce 33 more witnesses before the court for examination to substantiate the allegations levelled against the former Chief Minister.

Mr. Sinha said it would not examine 27 of the 137 prosecution witnesses shown by the CBI in its chargesheet filed against Mr. Laloo Prasad and the Chief Minister, Mrs. Rabri Devi. Examination of 105 witnesses had already been completed in the court. Both Mr. Laloo Prasad and Mrs. Rabri Devi have been granted bail in the case.

- PTI

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