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Article: Appeal against Lalu's acquittal in DA case maintainable: Patna HC
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- The Hindustan Times
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- September 20, 2007
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Patna, Sept. 20 -- The Patna High Court today said that a Bihar Government's petition challenging the acquittal of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi in a disproportionate assets (DA) case was maintainable.
Justice Ramesh Kumar Datta, who had earlier reserved his order on the maintainability of the petition, fixed September 24 as the next date for the case.
The bench said the appeal could be entertained under section 378 of the CrPC (Criminal Procedure Code) relating to a case of acquittal, with the leave of the High Court.
Lalu and Rabri had contested the State Government's appeal, ...