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A bench comprising Justice K T Thomas and Justice S N Phukan on Monday ordered listing of the petition for hearing on Friday.
The petition stated that Yadav had been granted bail in three fodder scam cases pending at a Patna court and added the allegations in the case against Yadav in the Ranchi court were similar in nature. Hence, he is entitled to bail.
The Supreme Court had on November five directed Yadav to surrender before the designated CBI judge at Ranchi after vacating the stays on arrest warrants pending against him and others.
His surrender on November 26 before the special court at Ranchi was in connection with the fraudulent withdrawal of over Rs 1.37 billion by animal husbandry department officials.
Meanwhile, Laloo Prasad Yadav was flown from Ranchi to Patna to be produced before special CBI judge S K Mishra on December 6 in connection with a disproportionate assets case.
Yadav was taken from the Kanke camp jail, where he was in judicial custody in connection with a fodder scam case, in a bullet proof car under heavy security to Ranchi's Birsa Munda airport at 1320 hours (IST) and then flown to Patna in a three-seater plane of the Bihar government.
Before leaving the Beacon factory guest house, converted into a camp jail for Yadav, he held a meeting with seven Jharkhand RJD MLAs to work out the party's strategy for the forthcoming winter session of the state assembly beginning on December 12.
He, however, refused to talk to mediapersons waiting at the jail gate.
RJD, which has nine MLAs in the Jharkhand assembly, is planning to move a no-confidence against the Babulal Marandi government, an MLA who participated in the meeting said.
However, a final decision in this regard is yet to be taken, he said.
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