Lalu Prasad Yadav, former chief minister of Bihar and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo, was on Tuesday was found guilty in Rs 139 crore scam from the Doranda (Jharkhand) treasury.
According to a media report, the Doranda treasury scam is a bizarre case where documents showed that cattle were transported from Haryana and Punjab to Bihar on scooters during the years 1990-92.
A special CBI court in Ranchi had concluded hearing the case on January 29 this year and had fixed February 15 as the date to pronounce its order.
The fodder scam, popularly known as chaara ghotala, refers to dozens of cases of financial irregularities to the tune of around Rs 930 crore in the animal husbandry department of the undivided Bihar between 1985-1995.
Lalu Yadav - who has now been convicted in all five fodder scam cases in which he was named as a conspirator - was present in the courtroom Tuesday morning as Judge CK Shashi read out verdict.
He entered politics at Patna University as a student leader and in 1977 at the age of 29, was elected as the youngest member of the Lok Sabha for the Janata Party.
He became the Chief Minister of Bihar in 1990. His party came to power in 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election in partnership with Nitish Kumar of JD(U). This coalition ended when Nitish resigned and RJD was ousted, becoming the opposition party.
In 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, RJD remained the single largest party in Bihar, and currently serves as the state's main opposition party.