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Not just Lalu: Nitish Kumar involved in fodder scam too?


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Not just Lalu: Nitish Kumar involved in fodder scam too?
If Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad is in jail, why is Chief Minister Nitish Kumar free? That is the big question doing the rounds in the political circles in Bihar at the moment. After all, didn’t one of the prime accused in the fodder scandal, Shyam Bihari Sinha, confess to the CBI that he also paid Nitish, (in the Samata Party then), Rs 1 crore of the scam money as election expenditure in 1994? It was finally Lalu’s association with Sinha, the central figure in the scam, which saw him thrown behind bars.
According to documents, which Singh claims to be in his possession, Sinha had paid money to Nitish Kumar in two installments—first Rs 1.40 crore for election purposes and then Rs 5.50 lakh for shopping by the leader during his trip to Australia. The air ticket, too, was arranged by the scamsters. He alleged that Shivanand Tiwari was paid money in three installments. “I have sufficient proof against Nitish Kumar and his colleagues,†said Singh.
http://www.firstpost.com/india/not-just-lalu-nitish-kumar-involved-in-fodder-scam-too-1151953.html :hmmm:
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The "evidence" - according to Mithilesh Kumar Singh-is in the form of CBI's reply to his Right to Information query whereby the investigation agency has accepted that they had "evidence" against both Nitish Kumar and Shivanand Tiwary. The agency claimed in its RTI reply that Shyam Bihari Sinha, the kingpin of the fodder scam case, had paid Rs.1.4 crore to Nitish Kumar in 1994 during elections and Rs.5 lakh to Tiwary for his daughter's wedding. The CBI has admitted in its reply that one Umesh Singh, who was a vigilance employee, had confessed to having paid the money given by Shyam Bihari Sinha to Nitish and Tiwary. The Jharkhand High Court has maintained that the CBI should include the names of the duo in the list of accused if they have evidence against them for accepting money from the scamsters. The HC has observed that this was also the basic concept of criminal investigation and the CBI should adhere to it.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/why-nitish-kumar-quiet-on-fodder-scam-lalu-prasad-conviction/1/313239.html
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