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Lalu Prasad Yadav incarcerated for 42 months!

NEW DEHLI: Lalu Prasad Yadav has been incarcerated for 42 months for defrauding the Behar state government of Indian Rs. 8.45m.

Following the Ranchi court decision, Yadav’s son said that the conviction will be challenged in an appeals court: “The judiciary has performed its duty. We will go to the HC after studying the sentence and apply for a bail”.

Today’s was 69-year-old Yadav’s second conviction. He is presently serving a 60-month term in Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Jail for fraudulently withdrawing Indian Rs. 378 from Govt. treasury and received the sentence via video-conference.

In India politicians found guilty of offences carrying a jail term of 2 years or more are barred from taking part in elections.

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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.