Lalu Prasad Yadav jailed for embezzling funds

PATNA: A court has sentenced two former chief ministers of an eastern Indian state to jail for embezzling millions of dollars in the 1990s with bogus bills for cattle feed.
Former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, a current member of India's Parliament, was sentenced Thursday to five years in jail and ordered to pay a $40,000 fine after he was convicted earlier this week of embezzling funds intended to buy food for cattle during his tenure as Bihar's top elected official in the mid-1990s.
A prosecution lawyer says Jagannath Mishra, another ex-chief minister of Bihar, was sentenced to four years in jail for his involvement in the scam.
The verdict makes Yadav one of the country's first politicians to face political disqualification under a new order banning convicts from public office.