PRESENTED BYANSH SARAF

Corruption scandal that involved the embezzlement of about  9.5 billion from the government treasury of the eastern Indian state of Bihar.

PRIME ACCUSED

LALLU PRASAD YADAV JAGANNATH MISHRA

• CAG in 1985 first took note of the anomalies in monthly account report and then immediately sent a message to the Bihar Government about the delay and informed them that he suspected misuse of funds.• A series of such warnings were continuously ignored by the Governments.

THE SCAM

CHANDRASHEKHAR

In 1992 Bidhu Bhushan Dvivedi, a police inspector with the state's anti-corruption vigilance unit

Submitted a report outlining the fodder scam and likely involvement at the chief ministerial level to the director general of the same vigilance unit.

WHISTLEBLOWER

Hence, there was a widespread demand for CBI Investigation and finally on the basis of a PIL filed, the Supreme Court of India instructed the Bihar High Court who in turn ordered the CBI to take over the case.

ENTRY OF CBI

Bihar officials and legislators were blocking access to documents that could reveal the existence of a politician-official-business mafia nexus at work

 As the investigation proceeded, the CBI unearthed linkages to the serving chief minister of Bihar, Laloo Prasad Yadav

EXPOSURE AND INVESTIGATION

The Governor permitted the CBI to prosecute the Chief Minister in June, 1997.

Laloo Prasad Yadav anticipating his arrest filed for an anticipatory bail and the CBI opposed it in Court.

PATH TO PROSECUTION

Laloo Prasad Yadav was arrested in the 17 June and charge-sheeted in the several hundred crore Fodder Scam.

He resigned from his post as the CM of Bihar and his wife Rabri Devi came to power as the CM of Bihar in his absence. 

END OF LALLU’S CHIEF MINISTERSHIP

• Trial in the cases continued and Laloo Prasad Yadav had to go to jail several times.

• On the partition of Bihar there were more than 50 cases running about the same scandal in courts in Ranchi and the Jharkhand High Court.

PROSECUTION

BUT CORRUPTION CONTINUES…….

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