President’s son Abhijit meets Lalu in jail

The Jangipur MP met Prasad at the Birsa Munda Central Jail here on Sunday. A CBI court had on 30 September awarded prison sentences to Prasad and 44 others for fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 37.7 crore from the Chaibasa treasury when he was at the helm of affairs in Bihar in the 1990s.

Prasad is scheduled to file an appeal in the Jharkhand High Court on 17 October against the sentence passed by a Special CBI court.

Mukherjee, who was going to Rajrappa also met Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren.