The case was first unearthed in 1996, after the police found that money was being fraudulently withdrawn from the state treasury and shown as expenditure on animal fodder. The Patna High Court asked the CBI to inquire. It was discovered that close to Rs.9.5 billion was thus looted from the treasury. A total of 61 cases were filed in which Laloo Prasad was accused in nine cases. Laloo Yadav was jailed at least four times, and he was forced to resign as Bihar chief minister. He made his wife chief minister and continued to rule by proxy. The scam was an embarrassment because it dealt with something so low as fodder, and it showed Laloo in very poor light. It still rankles.
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