Live Updates | Fodder scam verdict: Lalu Prasad Yadav convicted, RJD to move High Court

A special CBI court on Saturday convicted former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and 15 others in a decades old fodder scam case. Six accused including another former chief minister Jagannath Mishra were acquitted. 

The case pertains to an alleged fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 89.27 lakh from Deoghar Treasury between 1991 and 1994.

Here are the LIVE updates: 

06:01 pm: We will move the high court against the CBI court order convicting Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case: Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, RJD

05:30 pm: Lalu Prasad Yadav is even now politicizing the issue instead of accepting the verdict, just to deviate he is leveling allegations of conspiracy on BJP: JP Nadda, Union Minister

05:00 pm: Lalu Prasad Yadav brought to Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi 

5:00 pm: Lalu Yadav has been fighting this legal battle since 1996. It started when BJP leaders filed PIL against him in Patna HC. He and his lawyers are capable of fighting this case. I want to ask BJP why Srijan scam is not being investigated?: Manish Tewari, Congress

04:34 pm: Had people like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Baba Saheb Ambedkar failed in their efforts, history would have treated them as villains. They still are villains for the biased, racist and caste-ist minds. No one should expect any different treatment: Lalu Yadav

04:33 pm: Powerful people and powerful classes always managed to divide society into ruling and the ruled classes. And whenever anyone from the lower hierarchy challenged this unjust order, they would be deliberately punished: Lalu Yadav

Ranchi: Visual from Birsa Munda Central Jail where Lalu Prasad Yadav will be lodged; he has been convicted in #FodderScam case today pic.twitter.com/ZEoPHsQOIt

— ANI (@ANI) December 23, 2017

04:33 pm: A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ....But still prevails...In the end though: Lalu Yadav

04:32 pm: Truth can be made to appear as a lie, as ambiguous or a half lie by concerted onslaught of bias driven propaganda. But blurred layer of bias and hatred will still be removed, come what may! In end Truth will win: Lalu Yadav tweets

#Visuals of Lalu Prasad Yadav outside Ranchi's Special CBI Court after being convicted in a #FodderScam case pic.twitter.com/BxValvnv8n

— ANI (@ANI) December 23, 2017

04:10 pm: Lalu Yadav was taken into custody after his conviction 

04:07 pm: I believe in judiciary but in this case, CBI was arranging prosecution. Legally admissible evidence provided by us were set aside: Manoj Jha, RJD 

03:55 pm: Quantum of sentence to be pronounced on January 3, 2018

03:53 pm: Six accused including former Bihar CM Jagannath Mishra acquitted ​

03:52 pm: Lalu Prasad Yadav and 15 others have been found guilty

03:48 pm: Lalu Prasad Yadav found guilty by Special CBI Court 

Ranchi's Special CBI Court pronounces verdict, Lalu Prasad Yadav found guilty in #FodderScamVerdict pic.twitter.com/vI8SqKzeuy

— ANI (@ANI) December 23, 2017

03:20 pm: Heavy security outside Special CBI court in Ranchi ahead of verdict on fodder scam. 

Security outside CBI Special Court in Ranchi ahead of verdict in #FodderScam case. pic.twitter.com/LPPYIOoc0s

— ANI (@ANI) December 23, 2017

Visuals from outside CBI Special Court in Ranchi, ahead of verdict in #FodderScam case. pic.twitter.com/3jvJP5zUd5

— ANI (@ANI) December 23, 2017

02:50 pm: Lalu Prasad Yadav reaches special CBI court in Ranchi, son Tejashwi also with him. ​

Lalu Prasad Yadav reaches special CBI court in Ranchi ahead of verdict in #FodderScam , son Tejashwi Yadav also accompanying pic.twitter.com/2umKR16dQB

— ANI (@ANI) December 23, 2017

Lalu Prasad Yadav to appear before special CBI Court in Ranchi shortly #FodderScamVerdict pic.twitter.com/J6vIkTDB3h

— ANI (@ANI) December 23, 2017

"The court will pronounce the judgment at 3 pm," one of the Mishra's advocates said.

I have faith that I will get justice. Whatever be the judgment, appeal to people of Bihar to maintain law and order : Lalu Prasad Yadav in Ranchi #FodderScamVerdict pic.twitter.com/01FhnXoobT

— ANI (@ANI) December 23, 2017

Yadav, who arrived here yesterday accompanied by younger son Tejaswi Prasad told reporters today, " have full faith in the judicial system." 

Tejaswi expressed confidence that his father and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad, an accused in the case, will come out clean. Interacting with the media, Tejashwi said the entire matter was a part of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) propaganda to pull the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) down.

Lalu Prasad faces three other cases related to the fodder scam.

The RJD chief also appealed to his supporters in Bihar to maintain peace and order irrespective of the verdict.

Former MP R K Rana, three former IAS officers -- Phoolchand Singh, Beck Julius and Mahesh Prasad -- are also among the accused in the case.

A charge sheet was filed against 38 persons on October 27, 1997. Eleven of them died and three turned approvers while two other accused confessed and were convicted in 2006-07, a CBI official said.