Cbi Questions Laloo Yadav

Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal national president Laloo Prasad Yadav was yesterday interrogated by the CBI in connection with the multi-crore fodder scam.

The CBI team, led by joint director (east) UN Biswas, examined Yadav's role in the scam at the Water and Land Management Institute guest house on the outskirts of the state capital.

The evidence on which the CBI sleuths based their interrogation included the finding from Ranchi that scam kingpin S B Sinha was shown as the uncle and the local guardian of three wards of Yadav.

Yadav was also asked about the air tickets that were allegedly purchased by the animal husbandry department suppliers and which had been entered in the account books of one J P Verma, an Indian Airlines employee and supplier in the animal husbandry department. The books of accounts were seized by the CBI from Pataliputra Travels in Patna. Laloo was also asked to state his stand on the lapses committed by the finance department in detecting the excess withdrawals by the animal husbandry department.