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Following is the chronology of the fodder scam in which former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad has been convicted by a special CBI court in Ranchi.
January 1996 : Fodder scam surfaces after Deputy Commissioner Amit Khare raids offices of animal husbandry department, seizing documents showing syphoning of funds by non-existent companies in the name of supplying fodder.
March 11, 1996 : Patna High Court directs CBI to probe the scam. Supreme Court upholds the order.
March 27, 1996 : CBI registers FIR in Chaibasa treasury case.
June 23, 1997 : CBI files charge sheet and makes Lalu Prasad accused.
July 30, 1997 : RJD chief Lalu Prasad surrenders before CBI court, sent to judicial custody.
April 5, 2000 : Charges framed before special CBI court.
October 5, 2001 : Supreme Court transfers fodder scam cases to Jharkhand after the creation of new state.
February, 2002 : Trial begins in Ranchi special CBI court.
August 13, 2013 : Supreme Court rejects Lalu Prasad’s plea seeking transfer of the trial court judge hearing the case.
September 17, 2013 : Special CBI court reserves judgement.
September 30, 2013 : Two former Bihar Chief Ministers Lalu Prasad and Jagganath Mishra along with 45 others convicted by special CBI judge Pravas Kumar Singh.
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