Newdelhi: Supreme Court today rejected RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s plea for transfer of the Special CBI judge hearing the fodder scam case against him in Jharkhand. The apex court also asked the trial court to pronounce the verdict as soon as possible.
A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam dismissed the allegations of RJD supremo that the trial judge, being a relative of a minister in the Nitish Kumar government, is biased against him and questioned Lalu Prasad’s move to raise the issue at the fag end of the trial.

The apex court also set a time frame for concluding the proceedings granting five days time to CBI and 15 days to accused persons to wrap up their final arguments in the case. The bench, also comprising justices Ranjana Desai and Ranjan Gogoi, said that it was not inclined to entertain the allegations levelled against the judge and vacated its stay on the trial court proceedings.