All the 48 accused persons sentenced in a multi-crore fodde scam cases in India

The Special Judge-II, CBI, AHD, Ranchi has sentenced today eight accused persons in a multi-crore fodder scam case. The details of the judgement are:

Ram Sewak Sahu Counter Clerk, Doranda Treasury Ranchi to undergo 4 years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs. 2.25 lakhs; Phool Kumar Jha, Prop of M/s Bharti Enterprises Patna to undergo 4 years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.9 lakhs; Rajendra Kumar Harit, Prop. of M/s Pooja Road Lines, Ranchi to undergo 4 years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs.15 lakhs; Pradeep Kumar Chaudhary, Prop of M/s SM Enterprises, Anand Bhawan, Govind Mitra Road, Patna to undergo 4 years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs. 50 lakhs; Mahendra Prasad, Associated with M/s SR Enterprises, D-1, Laxmi Market, GM Road, Patna to undergo 4 years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs. 50 thousands; Santosh Kumar Sinha, Prop. of M/s Sanwin Pharmaceutical, Kolkata to undergo 4 years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs. 2 lakhs; Sanjay Sinha, Prop. of M/s Sanjay Sinha, Ranchi to undergo 4 years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs. 50 thousand and Devendra Kumar Roy, Prop. of M/s Swastik Drug Agency, Jugsalai, Jamshedpur to undergo 4 years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine of Rs. 2 lakhs.

The trial Court yesterday awarded sentences of Rigorous Imprisonments to 15 accused persons in this case. The court also awarded sentences of Rigorous Imprisonments to 16 accused persons on 1.7.2009 and 9 accused persons on 30.6.09 respectively. Thus all the 48 accused persons have been sentenced in this case.

CBI filed a chargesheet in the court against 56 accused persons. Out of them, three died during trial, two accused persons pleaded guilty and they were punished earlier and three accused persons were made approvers. The court convicted 48 accused persons facing trial on 30.6.09.

This case relates to Doranda, Ranchi Treasury. It was alleged that the accused AHD officials, in criminal conspiracy with the suppliers, treasury officials and others fraudulently withdrew an amount of Rs. 11,09,06,134.23 in the time span of 11 days, on the basis of forged and fabricated allotment letters, purported to have been issued from the AHD Directorate, Patna, manipulated supply orders and false bills preferred by the convict suppliers either without effecting the supply of feed, fodder etc. or after effecting part supply of vet medicines.

This is the 31st Fodder Scam Case so far disposed off from trial at Ranchi.