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The CBI has moved the Jharkhand High Court seeking that the prison term of RJD chief Lalu Prasad is enhanced from three-and-a-half to seven years in the Deoghar Treasury case in the multi-crore fodder scam . The CBI said other convicts in the case relating to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 8.9 million from the Deogarh Treasury were awarded seven years in prison by a special CBI court on January 6 this year. It argued that all convicts should face the same prison term as the charges and witnesses against all of them were the same. In the petition filed on Thursday, the CBI also sought enhanced prison terms for ex-MP R K Rana, former IAS officers Beck Julius, Phoolchand Singh and Mahesh Prasad, and former government official Subir Bhattacharya. Like Prasad, these five were also sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison. Read Complete Article Business Standard

The state-wide shutdown is backed by opposition parties including RJD, Congress, Samajwadi Party Current Affairs News : A shutdown called by the Left parties in Bihar on Thursday against the rape of 34 minor girls at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur district has hit rail and road traffic, police said. The state-wide shutdown is backed by opposition parties including the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) (RJD), Congress, Hindustani Swam Morcha , Samajwadi Party and Lokrantrik Janata Dal . Left party workers and supporters blocked railway tracks thereby affecting over a dozen trains since early Thursday morning According to reports reaching here, trains were stopped in Darbhanga, Madhubani, Jahanabad, Gaya, Muzaffarpur, Patna and Bhojpur districts. Protesters have also blocked several roads in Siwan, Bhojpur, Nawada, Patna, Arwal, Jagabad districts. The case came to light earlier this year when the Bihar Social Welfare Department filed an FIR based on a social audit o