HIGHLIGHTS: Shortly after being convicted in second of the five fodder scam cases, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has attacked the BJP in a series of tweets and compared himself to Nelson Mandela, BR Ambedkar, and Martin Luther King Jr. The former Bihar CM is being taken to the Birsa Munda Jail where he is likely to be allotted a cottage till sentencing on January 3. The special CBI court has also ordered all properties acquired by Lalu after 1990 to be attached. Jagannath Mishra, another former Bihar CM, has been acquitted. The judgment is yet another big blow to RJD’s first family, coming hours after the Enforcement Directorate filed a charge-sheet against Lalu’s daughter Misa Bharti and her husband in a corruption case. Ahead of the crucial verdict, the former Bihar CM was hopeful of a “2G-like” acquittal in the case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of more than Rs 89 lakh from Deoghar Treasury between 1991 and 1994. Ironically, Shivanand Tiwary, the man who first accused Lalu of the scam, is now in the RJD and has termed his 1994 accusation against the party chief as a “sin”. Apart from Lalu, 14 others have been convicted in the case, while seven have been acquitted.
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