Two fodder scam accused surrender

PATNA, Dec 10 (PTI) — Two senior IAS officials Mahesh Prasad and Beck Julius, against whom an arrest warrant had been issued in connection with the fodder scam case, today surrendered before a CBI court here.

Designated CBI Judge S K Lal remanded them to judicial custody and instructed jail officials to produce them tomorrow along with other accused involved in a conspiracy angle of the case relating to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 97 lakh from the state treasury by officials of the Bihar Animal Husbandry Department.

The judge had issued a non-bailable warrant against both the accused last month and instructed the Director General of Police to get them arrested and produce them in the court.

Two former Chief Ministers, Laloo Prasad Yadav and Dr Jagannath Mishra, former union minister Chandradeo Prasad Verma, former Bihar minister Vidyasagar Nishad and RJD MLA R K Rana are at present lodged in judicial custody in the Beur Jail in the case.