Former Bihar CM released from judicial custody

Former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra, a convict in a fodder scam case, was today released from judicial custody, two days after getting regular bail from the Jharkhand high court.
Mishra furnished two bonds of Rs 10,000 each in a special CBI court before being released from judicial custody, his counsel P D Sharma said.
The high court had on Monday granted bail to Mishra who on March 19 surrendered to the special CBI court after being in a hospital on interim bail since his conviction in a fodder scam case on September 30, 2013.
Mishra was sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment on October 3 that year in the RC20A/96 fodder scam case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37.7 crore from the Chaibasa Treasury in 1990s.

The former Bihar chief minister and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, former government officials and fodder suppliers, were also convicted in the same case. They had secured bail in the case earlier.
Mishra had on July 21 last year got a major relief when the high court quashed four other fodder cases against him as CrPC 300 states that a person convicted in one case could not be tried in similar cases based on the same witnesses and evidences.