Ranchi, January 28: A special CBI court today found nine fodder scam accused, including an ex-regional director, guilty of withdrawing Rs 50.37 lakh fraudulently from Hazaribagh Treasury in the 1990s.
Special CBI Judge Bireshwar Jha Prabir sentenced a supplier, Anil Kumar, to two-and-a-half years of rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 40,000.
The court will pronounce the quantum of punishment against the other eight convicts tomorrow.
A former regional director of the Animal Husbandry Department, K N Singh and two other ex-officials of the AHD, B B Prasad and K N Ram were among the nine convicted in the RC 29A/96 case.
This was the 35th of the 53 fodder scam cases to have been ended in conviction since the Rs 950 crore scam was unearthed in the 1990s in undivided Bihar.
–Agencies