Tej Pratap demands Lalus release from jail
Patna Mar 23 PTI RJD president Lalu Prasads elder son Tej Pratap Yadav on Wednesday demanded that his father who is undergoing treatment in hospital be immediately released from jail Yadav an RJD MLA was talking to reporters on the assembly premises a day after Prasad was shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS New Delhi in an air ambulance from Ranchi where he was serving sentence in a fodder scam case He was undergoing treatment at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences RIMS in the Jharkhand capital and his health condition had deteriorated I have seen my father being repeatedly put in jail having been implicated in a case he had sought to crack 35-year-old Yadav said He alleged that government officials who were primarily responsible for fraudulent withdrawal of money to the tune of about Rs 1000 crore from various districts of undivided Bihar were roaming freely while his father was being made to suffer despite old age and multiple ailments Training his guns at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Prasads arch rival the RJD leader alleged He Kumar is an accused in a murder case and would have faced life imprisonment but for an alliance with the BJP Notably the murder case relating to an incident of poll violence was lodged in the 1990s when Kumar was an MP from the now abolished constituency of Barh Criminal proceedings against Kumar were however set aside by the Patna High Court three years ago PTI PKD NAC ACD ACD
Patna Mar 23 PTI RJD president Lalu Prasads elder son Tej Pratap Yadav on Wednesday demanded that his father who is undergoing treatment in hospital be immediately released from jail Yadav an RJD MLA was talking to reporters on the assembly premises a day after Prasad was shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS New Delhi in an air ambulance from Ranchi where he was serving sentence in a fodder scam case He was undergoing treatment at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences RIMS in the Jharkhand capital and his health condition had deteriorated I have seen my father being repeatedly put in jail having been implicated in a case he had sought to crack 35-year-old Yadav said He alleged that government officials who were primarily responsible for fraudulent withdrawal of money to the tune of about Rs 1000 crore from various districts of undivided Bihar were roaming freely while his father was being made to suffer despite old age and multiple ailments Training his guns at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Prasads arch rival the RJD leader alleged He Kumar is an accused in a murder case and would have faced life imprisonment but for an alliance with the BJP Notably the murder case relating to an incident of poll violence was lodged in the 1990s when Kumar was an MP from the now abolished constituency of Barh Criminal proceedings against Kumar were however set aside by the Patna High Court three years ago PTI PKD NAC ACD ACD
