SC stays verdict in a fodder case
11 July 2013 5:14 AM IST
In an interim relief to former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Supreme Court on Tuesday restrained a special CBI court in Jharkhand from pronouncing its verdict on 15 July in a fodder case involving the RJD chief.
A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam agreed to hear Yadav’s plea alleging that special CBI judge P K Singh is biased against him as the judge is a relative of P K Shahi, the Education Minister in the Nitish Kumar government.
The bench said that the issue raised by Yadav ‘requires our examination whether the allegation is correct or not’ and issued notice to CBI, which is the prosecuting agency in the case.
It said, ‘If CBI says there is no bias then we would dismiss the petition.’
A bench headed by Justice P Sathasivam agreed to hear Yadav’s plea alleging that special CBI judge P K Singh is biased against him as the judge is a relative of P K Shahi, the Education Minister in the Nitish Kumar government.
The bench said that the issue raised by Yadav ‘requires our examination whether the allegation is correct or not’ and issued notice to CBI, which is the prosecuting agency in the case.
It said, ‘If CBI says there is no bias then we would dismiss the petition.’
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