CBI court completes sentencing of fodder scam convicts

A special CBI court on Friday sentenced three former officials of the Animal Husbandry department and nine suppliers, to between four and six years imprisonment for fraudulently withdrawing Rs 19.2 crore from the Doranda treasury in Ranchi in the 1990s.

A special CBI court on Friday sentenced three former officials of the Animal Husbandry department and nine suppliers, to between four and six years imprisonment for fraudulently withdrawing Rs 19.2 crore from the Doranda treasury in Ranchi in the 1990s.

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CBI judge, A H Ansari sentenced former treasury officials Rakesh Mehra and Rajendra Kumar Harit to four years imprisonment and gave five years to B P Sinha.

The court also handed out between four and six years RI to nine suppliers.

The court fined all the 12 convicts between Rs five and ten lakh.

With Friday's verdict, the judge completed sentencing of all the 52 convicted in the case on November 28.