Bail denied, Lalu Prasad may miss campaign for 2019 elections

RANCHI: The Jharkhand high court rejected on Thursday the bail petition of RJD president Lalu Prasad in three cases of the multi-crore fodder scam. Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh turned down Lalu’s bail plea in cases related to fraudulent withdrawal of money from Dumka, Deoghar and Chaibasa treasuries, assistant solicitor general of India and CBI lawyer Rajeev Sinha said.
The rejection of his bail plea means that the RJP president Lalu will not be able to campaign for Lok Sabha elections unless he gets a reprieve from the Supreme Court .
The court had reserved its order after a hearing on January 4. “The bail pleas in all three cases have been rejected on merit. The order is very satisfying to us,” Sinha said. He pointed out during the argument that Lalu’s lawyer, Kapil Sibal, had reasserted the same grounds which the court had rejected during a hearing on his bail petition in the Deoghar case earlier.