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NEW DELHI, Dec 18: India’s Railways Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has been cleared of amassing unaccounted assets while holding his former post as chief minister of Bihar, local media said.
A special court set up by the Central Bureau of Investigation, which announced the verdict in Bihar’s state capital Patna on Monday, also acquitted Mr Yadav’s wife in the case.
The couple were accused of investing $100,000, a sum that could not be accounted for by his reported income, into property, a Press Trust of India agency report said.
His party, which ruled Bihar for 15 years until losing in provincial polls last November, lauded the acquittal.—AFP
