Former Chief Minister of Bihar and wife of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Supremo Lalu Prasad, Rabri Devi along with RJD’s Rajya Sabha MP and daughter of Lalu Prasad, Misa Bharti arrived Ranchi to meet the incarcerated leader on Monday. Lalu Prasad is convicted in the fodder scam and undergoing treatment at Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS).
The mother-daughter met Lalu after special permission from the jail authorities to know his health condition. Rabri Devi has undergone eye surgery in Delhi just few days earlier.
Later in the Day the mother-daughter duo also met Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who welcomed them and said that he was happy to meet the former Bihar CM. “She is a guardian like figure and meeting her was really good,” said Soren.
Yadav had appeared before the special court on January 16 in an illegal withdrawal case of Rs 139 crores from Doranda Treasury attached to Fodder Scam and his statement was recorded. Prasad has been convicted in four cases of Fodder Scam. He has been in jail since December 2017. He is undergoing treatment for several diseases at RIMS.
On December 23, 2017, he was sentenced to three and a half years in the case of illegal withdrawal of Rs 84.53 lakh from Deoghar treasury. On March 24, 2018, Prasad was sentenced to 7-7 years in 2 different sections in the case of illegal withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from Dumka treasury, while also imposing a fine of 60 lakhs. On October 3, 2013, in the case of illegal withdrawal of Rs 37.7 crore and Rs 33.67 crore from Chaibasa treasury has been sentenced to five years each. All these three sentences of Lalu are going on simultaneously.
Lalu is suffering from uncontrolled diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic kidney disease (stage three), fatty liver, hyper uremia, kidney stone, prostate, he said.
Yadav met his family members in the last few months besides leaders of several parties including Sharad Yadav, Hemant Soren, Subodh Kant Sahay, Shatrughan Sinha, Sitaram Yechury, Shakeel Ahmed, Upendra Kushwaha, Jitanram Manjhi and others.
